Bizzare Filenames

[Chuck Howell]

> 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].