[name@hostd1 ~]$ ls -li

total 64

31758 -rw-rw-r-- 1 user group 4549 Oct 21 14:50 text.html

[name@hostd1 ~]$ find . -inum 31758 -exec rm -i {} \;

rm: remove regular file `./text.html'? y

You could also use find . -inum 31758 | xargs rm

I think CLI users should be aware of multiple options so thanks to those that replied with how to escape the special characters.

-Mike

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org> wrote:

> I don't know who to rotate the image, but to delete your file you need
> to use the inode. This is off the top of my head so if the synax is
> wrong you can just google it.
>
> ls -il "-rotate90"
>
> find . -inum 123456 -exec rm -i {} \;

The above suggestion doesn't work because the ls command fails. It's
also a very roundabout way to delete a file. There is no need to use
i-numbers.

The manual page for rm says:
To remove a file whose name starts with a ‘-’, for example ‘-foo’,
use one of these commands:

rm -- -foo

rm ./-foo

Using "--" to separate flags/options from filenames works for many
commands, including ls.

-Dale

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