Accessing files by inode #s

[Robert Maxwell]

In article <3258 at psuvax1.psu.edu>, schwartz at gondor.cs.psu.edu (Scott E. Schwartz) writes:
> In article <530 at celerity.UUCP> jjw at celerity.UUCP (Jim (JJ) Whelan) writes:
> 
> >>          find <path> -inum <inode> -exec <command> \;
> 
> >The find will traverse file mount points so you may locate files in file
> >systems other than the one you are interested in.  Be especially careful
> >with using "rm -f" as the command.
> 
> If you are playing with "-inum" it is probably a good idea to use "-xdev" 
> also, if you want to prevent find from traversing other filesystems. 
> Do all versions of find support -xdev?  4.3BSD and SunOS3.4 find have it,
> at any rate.
> 
System V doesn't have the -xdev option, but recent versions, at least on the
3B2-600 and 3B15 have a -mount option which does the same thing. My users
manual for the 3B15 R2.1 doesn't document it, but the option exists in
R2.1.1. 

As the new versions of Sys V are released, I assume the option will
show up on other systems.


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