removing devs

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Author: D.Taylordtaylor@www.dssolutions.com
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Subject: removing devs
Hmmm. You could try getting the inode number via

ls -i

Then

find . -xdev -inum <inode_number> -exec rm -f {} \;


D

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, der.hans wrote:

> Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 11:57:04 -0700 (MST)
> From: "der.hans" <>
> Reply-To:
> To: quatsch <>
> Subject: removing devs
>
> moin, moin,
>
> is there a magic incantation to remove device files?
>
> "rm -f" doesn't work and MAKEDEV doesn't recognize the dev files I'm
> trying to get rid of. I'm not even sure they're supposed to be dev files.
>
> c--xr--r-x    1 25939    26226     97, 101 Apr  3  1987 Databases
> b--srwS---    1 31087    29728    108, 103 Dec  3  2023 Editors

>
> I've worked around it by moving the parent dir out of the way...
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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