Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 03:08:55PM -0500, Michael Merten wrote: On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 03:08:20PM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote: On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. Most people told you to rm ./file or rm 'file' but that won't work of course since you can't input the filename from the keyboard at all. (The name as you typed it looks like it consists of escape sequences, not something you can easily type on the keyboard.) So it's a better idea to use the shell's wildcard expansion to do the work for you. You can type rm -i * and then answer n for every file except for this one. It does look like escape sequences, but what key would produce ?[4~ ... the closest I can find is PgDn which produces ^[[4~. Is there a table/chart/listing of these somewhere for a linux term? the ? means unprintable character, and is probably really a ^[ (aka \e) (but the shell cant print it). you cant know what the first chars are though. the rm -i thing is the easiest (well here you could also use rm *[4~ since this is not likely to match another name). when there are too many files you can also use ls -i, then find. i guess this must be explained in every unix faq. -lex pgpX20CANhAAw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...
* Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It does look like escape sequences, but what key would produce ?[4~ ... the closest I can find is PgDn which produces ^[[4~. Is there a table/chart/listing of these somewhere for a linux term? console_codes(4), but I don´t know how the codes mentioned there translate to that here. -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to escape this for the bash shell...
I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. Someone suggested using Midnight Commander, but it doesn't even list it as showing up in the directory, so it obviously doesn't know what to do with it either! Any shell-heads out there want to take a stab at it? It's not really bothering me, but it's just sitting there at the top of every 'ls'... (: -- +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | http://www.natetech.com | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++
Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...
Nate Duehr wrote: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. have you tried 'rm ./FILE'? There are several ways to delete files with weird filenames. There was a thread on it last month. Take a look at: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9907/msg00289.html and follow that thread. BTW, it's entitled Remove funny files hth -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ http://www.debian.org
Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. For this one, I'd just enclose the filename in single quotes like rm 'file' which should prevent shell interpretation of the ~,? and [ characters. Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten --- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org --- CenLA-LUG Founder -- http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug -- I just thought of something funny...your mother. --Cheech Marin
Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...
Nate Duehr wrote: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. Someone suggested using Midnight Commander, but it doesn't even list it as showing up in the directory, so it obviously doesn't know what to do with it either! Any shell-heads out there want to take a stab at it? It's not really bothering me, but it's just sitting there at the top of every 'ls'... (: -- +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | http://www.natetech.com | "May the Source be with you." | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | | http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo | ++ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null have you tried "rm \?\?\?\?\?\[4~\?\[4~\?\[4~\?\[4~\?\[4~\?\[4~\?\[4~\?\[4~\?\[4~\?\[4~" -- \\\// / _ _ \ ( O O ) ===oOOO=(_)=OOOo=== PAQUET Ludovic e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] telephone : 05-46-88-41-80 ===Oooo.=== .oooO ( ) ( ) ) / \ ( (_/ \_)
Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...
have you tried rm ./?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. Someone suggested using Midnight Commander, but it doesn't even list it as showing up in the directory, so it obviously doesn't know what to do with it either! Any shell-heads out there want to take a stab at it? It's not really bothering me, but it's just sitting there at the top of every 'ls'... (: -- +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | http://www.natetech.com | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. Someone suggested using Midnight Commander, but it doesn't even list it as showing up in the directory, so it obviously doesn't know what to do with it either! Hi, rm 'your_file_name' mc doesn't list this file because it last char is ~ and mc interprets this files as backup. You can set in mc Options-Configuration...-show Backup files to see files *~ and Options-Configuration...-show Hidden files to see files .* Mirek
Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. Most people told you to rm ./file or rm 'file' but that won't work of course since you can't input the filename from the keyboard at all. (The name as you typed it looks like it consists of escape sequences, not something you can easily type on the keyboard.) So it's a better idea to use the shell's wildcard expansion to do the work for you. You can type rm -i * and then answer n for every file except for this one. -- Alex Shnitman| http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--- http://alexsh.hectic.netUIN 188956PGP key on web page E1 F2 7B 6C A0 31 80 28 63 B8 02 BA 65 C7 8B BA /real/ kernel hackers dd if=/dev/urandom of=/vmlinuz and influence the Universal Randomosity Field. -- Gaal Yahas pgpEiZGQ47WHo.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...
Quoting Alex Shnitman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. Most people told you to rm ./file or rm 'file' but that won't work of course since you can't input the filename from the keyboard at all. (The name as you typed it looks like it consists of escape sequences, not something you can easily type on the keyboard.) So it's a better idea to use the shell's wildcard expansion to do the work for you. You can type rm -i * and then answer n for every file except for this one. In the general case, I think you still need the ./* in case you have files called -d etc. which would generate undesirable option switches. I would also assume that rm -i ./*4~ could speed things up. Where the file name at least starts with printable characters, recognition (tab) can also help as it automatically inserts the necessary backslashes. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...
Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. bash will properly escape it if you use file-name completion. Thus if you type ? and then tab after the command you'd like to operate on that file, bash will complete the name (unless you have other files beginning with ? too). Someone suggested using Midnight Commander, but it doesn't even list it as showing up in the directory, so it obviously doesn't know what to do with it either! Are you sure it's a file at all? It looks more like a misconfigured ls. Does the file show up in your $HOME only or in every directory? Regards, -- Eberhard Burrcheck http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~Eberhard.Burr/publickey.asc for PGP Key -- #include stddisc.h -- electric cookie follows BARRY ... That was the most HEART-WARMING rendition of I DID IT MY WAY I've ever heard!!
Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...
This worked. I feel silly... that was TOO simple. Thanks Shao. p.s. Using single-quotes didn't work, unless I misread and it was supposed to be single-backquotes? On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: have you tried rm ./?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. Someone suggested using Midnight Commander, but it doesn't even list it as showing up in the directory, so it obviously doesn't know what to do with it either! Any shell-heads out there want to take a stab at it? It's not really bothering me, but it's just sitting there at the top of every 'ls'... (: -- +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | http://www.natetech.com | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _ +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++
Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 03:08:20PM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote: On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. Most people told you to rm ./file or rm 'file' but that won't work of course since you can't input the filename from the keyboard at all. (The name as you typed it looks like it consists of escape sequences, not something you can easily type on the keyboard.) So it's a better idea to use the shell's wildcard expansion to do the work for you. You can type rm -i * and then answer n for every file except for this one. It does look like escape sequences, but what key would produce ?[4~ ... the closest I can find is PgDn which produces ^[[4~. Is there a table/chart/listing of these somewhere for a linux term? Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten --- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org --- CenLA-LUG Founder -- http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug -- Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat. -- Rule 46, Oxford Union Society, London
