more on strange file names

[Jeffrey W Percival]

In article <137 at lmef.UUCP> damon at lmef.UUCP (Damon Scaggs) writes:
>A while back there was considerable discussion about how to delete files
>
>	find . -inum (inode # of file) -exec /bin/rm {} \;
>
>Certainly this is better than clri followed by a fsck...

Nope.  The original posting concerned 2.8BSD, and *nothing* using "rm"
worked.  Nothing whose performance ultimately relied on "unlink(2)" did
the job.  I received many suggestions, and tried them all, but my file
names were such that only the clri method was successful.

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	Jeff Percival ...!uwvax!uwmacc!jwp