Remove a file on linux using the inode number
Posted
by WebDevHobo
on Super User
See other posts from Super User
or by WebDevHobo
Published on 2010-05-19T22:05:16Z
Indexed on
2010/05/19
22:10 UTC
Read the original article
Hit count: 458
If you create a file on UNIX/linux with special chars, like touch \"la*, you can't remove it with rm "la*. You have to use the inode number(you can if you add the \ before the name, I know, but you'd have to guess as a user that it was used in the file creation).
I checked the manpage for rm, but there's no metion of the inode number. Doing rm inodenumber doesn't work either.
What is the command for this?
© Super User or respective owner
