Weird File Names (Removing them)

[Derek E. Terveer]

In article <167 at usource.UUCP>, frankb at usource.UUCP (Frank Bicknell) writes:
> Safer would be:
>
>  		find . -inum inode -exec rm -i {} \;
>
> or use a fix program which does this only to the file in the
> current filesystem (where _is_ that source code?).

The newer OS equivalents for this command that is restricted to a single fs
would be:

		/* bsd -- don't cross(X) over to another device(DEV)
		 */

		find . -xdev -inum inode -exec rm {} \;

		/* sysv -- stay on own mounted fs
		 */

		find . -mount -inum inode -exec rm {} \;

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