Suppose if you have created a file with a special character in its name because of a typo, you may not be able to access it. You may not even be able to delete the file. For example, see the below files.
If you see the output of ls command, you will not be able to identify the space at the end of the file. Hence you may not be able to access the file unless you specify a space at the end of the file using quotes.
The ? is a wild character for which any character can be substituted. Hence you may end up deleting or reading some other file.
To handle this situation, we can make use the inode of the file. Every file has a unique inode number with which we can identify the file.
To rename the file:
You can specify the inode number in the find command as below to rename the files. The below command renames the file using the inode number.
To delete the file:
You can delete the file using the inode number of the file with the help of "find" command as below.
