Homework & Coursework Questions

1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
 
You 	should also know how to find files based on their characteristics.
Use 		stat to list the meta data for the file with inode number 2793324. 		Your command should suppress error messages. Hint: command 		substitution will make this easier!
 	alindner@cs215:~$ 	find / -inum 2793324 -exec stat {} \; 2> /dev/null
 	 	 File: `/usr/lib/locale/bn_IN/LC_NAME'
 	 	 Size: 130             Blocks: 8          IO Block: 	4096   regular file
 	Device: 	801h/2049d      Inode: 2793324     Links: 1
 	Access: 	(0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
 	Access: 	2011-04-02 19:37:31.000000000 -0400
 	Modify: 	2010-10-28 17:51:33.000000000 -0400
 	Change: 	2011-01-16 18:08:54.000000000 -0500
 	
How 		many bytes would be in this file if all the 		alphas (a-z and A-Z) and all the numerics (0-9) where 		removed from it?
 
 2. Relevant commands, code, scripts, algorithms:
See 1 & 2

3. The attempts at a solution (include all code and scripts):
So i am trying to remove the Alpha and Numeric characters, so i am using tr to do this, but it keep dumping characters on my screen? when i try to do this.  Is this because when i less it it tells me its a binary file?

tr -d "[:alnum:]" < LC_NAME4

Also wasnt sure if it was an issue with permissions as well so i made copies of the file to work on and changed permissions (chmod 7777 LC_NAME4)

less LC_NAME4


^]^Q^C ^G^@^@^@$^@^@^@/^@^@^@0^@^@^@=^@^@^@S^@^@^@f^@^@^@|^@^@^@%p%t%f%t%g^@^@শ�<8D>র�<80>^@শ�<8D>র�<80>মত�<80>^@�<95>�<81>মার�<80>^@শ�<8D>র�<80>মত�<80>^@UTF-8^@
LC_NAME4 lines 1-1/1 (END)

Is there something im doing worn with tr?

4. Complete Name of School (University), City (State), Country, Name of Professor, and Course Number (Link to Course):
KeeneState, KSC, Keene, NH, USA, Charlie W., CS215-01

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Looking tr it looks more like it for replacing? So would i be able use sed with the d option?

tr -d '[a-zA-Z0-9]'