Ugly file name

[Chris Torek]

In article <535 at visdc.UUCP> jiii at visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III) writes:
>When your back is up against the wall, the following construct can be
>used to replace any argument and will allow you to do anything you want:
>
>	"`echo '\xxx\xxx\xxx\c'`"
>
>where xxx is any octal number.

Only if you are dealing with a broken SysV echo (echo should *not* do
escape interpretation, and even `echo -n' is iffy); and even then you
may have trouble generating meta characters (values in 0200..0377) if
you have an older shell.  If you have a working echo, use printf(1):

	"`printf %s '\xxx\xxx\xxx'`"

This still may not be able to name meta characters (depending again on
the vagaries of your particular shell).
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