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- From: elitman@wam.umd.edu (Eric A. Litman)
- Subject: Re: file removal problem solved.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.154420.21838@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:44:20 GMT
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- Interesting that one would go through such an elaborate method. You could
- have:
-
- [~elitman] elitman@phenom(ttyp3)
- 11:36am -# /bin/ls -i
- 16809 Apps 32537 Library
- 48329 Mailboxes 54133 MusicInfo
- 42487 bin 66595 dead-cube
- 20875 foo&bar 20864 letter-to-UK
- 20861 promos.tar.F 20892 utilsnmail.tar
- [~elitman] elitman@phenom(ttyp3)
- 11:36am -# find . -inum 20875 -exec rm {} \;
- [~elitman] elitman@phenom(ttyp3)
- 11:37am -# /bin/ls -i
- 16809 Apps 32537 Library
- 48329 Mailboxes 54133 MusicInfo
- 42487 bin 66595 dead-cube
- 20864 letter-to-UK 20861 promos.tar.F
- 20892 utilsnmail.tar
-
- Why bother with something as bloated as a C program when this will accomplish
- exactly the same thing?
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