Like to remove blank file but find showing multiple hits for inode number

Mike755 — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:34:30 GMT

Below is what I'm seeing. Would like to remove the "blank" file name in the "/" directory seen below with inode number 2793. Noticing file is zero count with only date and year no "time" listed when written last.

Just don't want to remove anything else associated with that number as shown when running find command.

# pwd
/

# ll -i
total 164
2794 drwxr-xr-x   3 root       sys             96 May 22 08:14 .sw
2790 lrwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys             12 Jul 18 11:42 ASKPLUS -> /usr
/askplus
2789 -rw-rw-rw-   1 root       root          4266 Sep 11 11:39 CTSTATUS.FCS
2792 drwxr-xr-x   2 root       sys             96 Feb 26 2013 SD_CDROM
   384 drwxr-xr-x   4 root       sys             96 Sep 12 14:53 backup
1024 lr-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin              8 Jul 18 11:39 bin -> /usr/bin

   123 dr-xr-xr-x 23 bin        bin           8192 Sep 11 11:41 dev
     4 dr-xr-xr-x 40 bin        bin           8192 Sep 12 14:31 etc
     2 drwxr-xr-x 11 root       root          8192 Jun 5 15:30 home
1025 lr-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin              8 Jul 18 11:39 lib -> /usr/lib

     3 drwxr-xr-x   2 root       root            96 Feb 1 2013 lost+found
2796 drwxr-xr-x   3 root       sys             96 Jun 5 16:56 mnt
2791 dr-xr-xr-x   2 root       root            96 Feb 21 2013 net
     2 dr-xr-xr-x 108 bin        bin           8192 Sep 10 11:22 opt
     2 drwxr-xr-x 16 root       root          2048 Sep 13 08:07 root
    13 dr-xr-xr-x 16 bin        bin           8192 Jul 18 12:02 sbin
     2 dr-xr-xr-x   8 bin        bin           8192 Sep 11 11:40 stand
     2 drwxrwxrwx   7 root       root          8192 Sep 13 08:07 tmp
     2 dr-xr-xr-x 24 bin        bin           8192 Feb 27 2013 usr
     2 dr-xr-xr-x 33 bin        bin           8192 Sep 5 12:08 var
2793 -rw-r--r--   1 root       sys              0 Feb 26 2013

# find . -inum 2793 -exec ll -i {} \;
2793 -r--r--r--   1 speclive   live          2816 Nov 4 2008 ./opt/summit/sp
ectrum/LIVE/cdoc/cstoplog.html
2793 -r--r--r--   1 spectest   test          2816 Nov 4 2008 ./opt/summit/sp
ectrum/TEST/cdoc/cstoplog.html
2793 -r--r--r--   1 spectrn    trn           2816 Nov 4 2008 ./opt/summit/sp
ectrum/TRAIN/cdoc/cstoplog.html
2793 -r--r--r--   1 bin        bin           4037 Feb 20 2009 ./opt/wbem/mof/
CIM217/DMTF/Physical/CIM_MediaPhysicalStatInfo.mof
total 12
2230 -rw-r--r--   1 root       bin            477 May 31 10:44 libcrypto.pc
2231 -rw-r--r--   1 root       bin           1652 May 31 10:44 libcurl.pc
2232 -rw-r--r--   1 root       bin            492 May 31 10:44 libssl.pc
2233 -rw-r--r--   1 root       bin            501 May 31 10:44 libxml-2.0.pc
2234 -rw-r--r--   1 root       bin            502 May 31 10:44 openssl.pc
2793 -r--r--r--   1 bin        bin          41448 Jun 15 2012 ./usr/sbin/stm/
catalog/C/HP-UX_B.11.31/tools/expert/scsi_mo_dr.cat
total 32
2804 drwxr-xr-x   2 root       sys             96 Feb 1 2013 DCE-COR-64SLIB
2815 drwxr-xr-x   2 root       sys           8192 Feb 1 2013 DCE-CORE-DTS
2822 drwxr-xr-x   2 root       sys             96 Feb 1 2013 DCE-CORE-HELP
2827 drwxr-xr-x   2 root       sys             96 Feb 1 2013 DCE-CORE-NOTES
2807 drwxr-xr-x   2 root       sys           8192 Feb 1 2013 DCE-CORE-RUN
2799 drwxr-xr-x   2 root       sys             96 Feb 1 2013 DCE-CORE-SHLIB
2830 drwxr-xr-x   2 root       sys             96 Feb 1 2013 DCE-IA64-SHLIB
2833 drwxr-xr-x   2 root       sys             96 Feb 1 2013 DCE-JPN-E-MSG
2837 drwxr-xr-x   2 root       sys             96 Feb 1 2013 DCE-JPN-S-MSG
2841 drwxr-xr-x   2 root       sys             96 Feb 1 2013 DCEC-ENG-A-MAN
2846 drwxr-xr-x   2 root       sys             96 Feb 1 2013 MACR-ENG-A-MAN
2794 drwxr-xr-x   2 root       sys             96 Feb 1 2013 pfiles
2793 -rw-rw-r--   1 bolive     live             0 Aug 2 22:16 ./var/summit/sp
ectrum/LIVE/FI/OUTPUT/RESTPSPR
2793 -rw-r--r--   1 root       sys              0 Feb 26 2013 ./
#

Re: Like to remove blank file but find showing multiple hits for inode number

Dennis Handly — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:47:44 GMT

If it is actually a space, you can remove it with:

rm -i " "

To see how many spaces, you should use: ll -ib /

># find . -inum 2793 -exec ll -i {} \;

The correct find command to stay in the current filesystem is:

find . -xdev -inum 2793 -exec ll -ibd {} +

If you only want to search the current directory:

find . ! -name . -type d -prune -o -xdev -inum 2793 -exec ll -ibd {} +

Re: Like to remove blank file but find showing multiple hits for inode number

Mike755 — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 14:06:38 GMT

Thanks Dennis the find command you shared is what I needed.

Can I ask how I assign point or points to award you this is my first post here and would like to award some if they do that.

Re: Like to remove blank file but find showing multiple hits for inode number

Mike755 — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 14:07:08 GMT

Nevermind see it does it automatically. =)

Re: Like to remove blank file but find showing multiple hits for inode number

Patrick Wallek — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 14:29:25 GMT

What you are seeing are files with an inode of 2793, but you are seeing them within different file systems.

Running your find from the '/' directory will search through ALL file systems on your system. Each file system has its own list of inode numbers, so you can have the same inode number in each file system, but the inode will be referencing different files.

If you want to restrict your find command to a single file system you can add the '-xdev' option.

In your case:

# find . -xdev -inum 2793 -exec ll -i {} \;

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