linuxgeek: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: using files in command prompt by their inode number

On 01Sep2010 05:31, c2431993 <c2431993@yahoo.com> wrote:
| i want to know the way how can i open any file by using their inode number

You can't. The best you can do is use find (or somethig like it) to locate
the name of the file based on the inode number, then open using the name:

find /mount/point -xdev -inum inode-number-here -print \
| { read -r filename; cat "$filename"; }

or some variation of that. If you really don't know where the file is
(other than the mount point of course, since an inode number is
per-filesystem) then this will be pretty slow.
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