[X-Unix] Can you get the path from an inode?

[David Ledger]

>From: "Wing Wong" <wingedpower at gmail.com>
>Philip's got it right with the find. Another is a recursive ls with
>the -i option so you get the inode listing.
>Check out more info regarding inodes at:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inod>
>Wing

There is certainly no way of doing this with a Unix filesystem. As 
inodes are an add-on to HFS+ it's highly unlikely Apple has added a 
reverse lookup.

'find' is the way to go. Recursive 'ls' would be a much more complex, 
much slower way of doing it, with no advantage.

David

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