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Old 04-06-2011
Question Delete from supplied list of files
Hi,

I have a file that contains >4000 inode numbers. Each inode number is on separate row. I'd like to delete all this files. Any idea how could I do it?

Thank you.

Andrej
# 2  
Old 04-06-2011
Code:
while read LINE; do
    find /somefs -inum $LINE -exec rm {} \;
done < inode.list

You could change the rm vs an echo to check if this is what you want. You'll might have to adjust the starting directory ie. file system of course.
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andrejm
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Old 04-06-2011
In the above example, the find is launched for each and every nodes (not optimal).

So another way that "may" be faster (but ok, it may depends on some other stuff off course) is to generate a big list of inode/file once and then grep the matching inode from it

Code:
find $YOUR_SEARCH_PATH -exec ls -di {} + >ifile.lst 2>/dev/null

Code:
fgrep inode.list ifile.lst

or
Code:
grep -f inode.list ifile.lst

and the grep the filename from that list based on inode matching.
Last edited by ctsgnb; 04-06-2011 at 10:39 AM..
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Old 04-06-2011
Bug Thank you
It works, thank you very much!

Andrej
 
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