This is hopefully a quick question for someone to answer.

I have a file that is a bit weird... I made it accidentally and I am unable to delete is through normal methods.

I know what the inode number of the file is.

What command can I use (probably rm) to delete this evil and nasty file using only the inode number.

I read the manual in rm, unlink, chattr, and shred.
But I found nothing about deleting the file via the inode number.

Can someone please give me a command and options to delete this file.....


Thank you for your help, and have a good day.

Hint: check the man page for find. Find can find by inode, and delete the found file in one step.

There are other ways: in linux there is ALWAYS more than one way to do it.

+1 for find.
Note, if the file name contains spaces or other weird characters, try quoting it.

You might also be interested in the debugfs utility (in the e2fsprogs package). It's quite powerful, so use with caution.

The full truth...

It was on my media player, with a WiNdOwS filesystem.
"Find" annihilated the files that I was unable to delete.

THANK YOU!!!