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From: guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: inode number -> pathname? (4.2BSD)
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Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 03:22:29 EDT
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> >I am looking for a good way to generate the full path name of a directory, 
> >given only its inode number (plus the device number of its filesystem).
> How about:
> 
> 	find / -inum inode-number -print

Well, this is even slower than "ncheck", and will report *all* files that
have that inumber; remember, the problem was "translate a device/inumber
*pair* to the directory with that inumber *on that device*".

	Guy Harris

P.S. 4.xBSD is the only UNIX that documents "-inum" but I think it's been in
there since V7 and is thus in S3 and S5 as well.