Help! There's a slash '/' in my filename.
Andrew H Cowan
cowan at dover.sps.mot.com
Sat Feb 2 03:09:02 AEST 1991
I don't know how it happened... but I've got a directory (on a
Sun OS 4.0.3 machine) that contains two files with the slash '/'
character embedded in the filenames. I recall a discussion about bogus
filenames in this group a while back, did anybody ever figure out how
to deal with filenames that contain slashes?
Now that I've got 'em, how can I get rid of them?
Its a tricky problem, because it seems that every command on the system
tries to follow the name like it is a directory path. Thus, every command
returns "file or directory not found". Wildcarding to uniquely identify
the files is no help because the expanded filenames contain slashes.
Help!!
\_/oo\_/
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Andy Cowan...........||........cowan at soleil.sps.mot.com......AZ...
"Stop me, before I kill -9 again!" -AC
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