Pietro, Thank you very much for the reply!!!
THe --escape and -b are the same options, with the same output, but the $'<ouput>' was new to me & works. I have always though to completely understand shell quoting is to become one with the shell... Thanks!! On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > Mark T. Valites wrote: > > Every once in a while, either a user somehow comes up with a file with > > funky characters, or I create one by accident. When displayed through a > > 'ls', the non-printable characters are displayed with "?"s. The "?"s are > > not literal question marks, but just represent an unprintable character. > > > > Without using shell meta characters (*), C, perl, loops, find or anything > > other than just the rm command, I haven't been able to figure out how to > > remove this file. There has to be a way to get rid of it with rm, but I > > have had no such luck with it so far by quoting, escaping, using "--", > > "./" or any other magic I can think of. > > with a little help from man ls && man bash: > > ls --escape will print the escape sequences for funky characters; > > rm $'<pasted from ls --escape output>' will then work. > > hope this helps! > > pietro. > > > > > >--))> >--))> Mark T. Valites Unix Systems Analyst 1 College Circle - 124b1 South Hall SUNY Geneseo Geneseo, NY 14454 585-245-5577 585-259-3471 (Cell) 585-245-5579 (Fax) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
