On Friday 19 November 2004 14:50, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > On Nov 19, 2004, at 9:09 AM, Hexren wrote: > > AF> I was editing my named.conf and somehow saved the file > > AF> with a trailing backslash and I can't get rid of it. > > > > AF> -rw-r--r-- 1 root bind 18314 Nov 18 11:35 named.conf > > AF> -rw-r--r-- 1 root bind 18314 Nov 18 11:07 > > named.conf.save.11-18 > > AF> -rw-r--r-- 1 root bind 17389 Nov 18 10:58 named.conf\ > > AF> -rw-r--r-- 1 bind bind 2602 May 25 17:28 named.root > > > > AF> I was using nano and have no clue how I did it. > > AF> If I rm named.conf\ it removes the named.conf. > > > > AF> So how do I get rid of named.conf\ ? > > > > AF> Andy > > > > > > --------------------------------------------- > > > > > > only shooting in the blue here but have you tried rm > > 'named.conf\' so as to instruct the sheel to ignore any special > > chars it sees. Or rm named.conf\\ (I seem to recall that you the > > backslash is the escape sequenze for the bash so escaping a > > backslash should lead to a literal backslash. *guessing* > > My first instinct would be > cp named.conf backupnamed.conf > rm named.con* > mv backupnamed.conf named.conf > > :-) > > I'm too paranoid that I know what *should* work wouldn't or would > still end up deleting the original file I wanted, so I'd have to > make a backup of the file and do it that way rather than play with > escapes and quotes.
Cant' you escape the \ with a \? rm named.conf\\ ?? -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
