Bizzare Filenames

[Shane P. McCarron]

>> What happens if one (by mistake) creates a file called `ctl-foo' and one
>> didn't know that this was happening.  The next time they did an `ls'
>> of that directory they'd get a `?' and it would be impossible to remove
>> because they don't know the name.

>If you really want to know the (non-printing) characters in your 
>filename, you can always ls > somefile.tmp, then vi (or emacs, or
>od -c, or whatever...) somefile.tmp.  [This works on ULTRIX anyway].

Another method, although somewhat less accurate, would be to type 
'rm *foo'.  This should eliminate the entire problem.
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Shane P. McCarron
Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation - Technical Services

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