how to find filename

[Satish Y]

Hi All,
Is it possible to find out the details of inode like to what file/directory it corresponds to and attributes for e.g. i have only i node number from that i want to find all the details.
Cheers...
Satish.

[Animesh Chakraborty]

hi Satish,
use -i option with ls
like ls -ali will give you the inode numbers of files.


best of luck
Animesh

[Michael Tully · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Try something like this:

# find /stand -inum -print | xargs ls -lsa

HTH
-Michael

[Ravi_8]

Hi,
"ncheck" will help u.

[Satish Y]

Thanks all for ur responses....
Michael, Is there any other command like ls to find the same?...
cheers...
Satish.

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi

ls -i will show the inode for a file, so as an example:

find /stand -type f | xargs ls -i | sort +n

will show all files under /stand, sorted by inode.

Rgds, Robin