Can it be renamed? How does a GUI deal with it? On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 7:20 AM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Oct 2023, Reid wrote: > > > Any luck with this? > > > https://askubuntu.com/questions/746048/cant-delete-a-file-with-a-in-the-file-name > > Reid, > > Nope. > > However, using `ls -b' I learned that the `?' is octal \021. The ls man > page > did't suggest another option to view non-printable characters and my > trial-and-error efforts to replace that parenthesis with `*' failed. So did > trying to use a wildcard after initial chars in the filename. > > > Also if it's the only file in the directory (maybe I misunderstood), what > > happens when you try to remove the whole directory (`rm -rf > > <directory_path>`)? > > Initially I used `rm -rf salmo-root' and everything but that one file was > removed. > > Thanks, > > Rich > > >
