Lets suppose you have downloaded a file on
your unix system which has some name that cannot be used with unix
commands. For example, name of the file is "-ROOT- " . Now if you try
to copy , delete or rename this file
mv -ROOT- ROOT
you will get error saying something like invalid option -R .
You can access this file using its inode number which can you get by running "ls -i " in the directory that contains the file.
Lets suppose inode number of -ROOT- is 15487
so you can perform above operations as
find . -inum 15487 -exec mv {} ROOT \;
Also, while you can delete this file as follows
find . -inum 15487 -exec rm {} \;
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