Re: An Odd File Name

2017-02-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 12:49:35PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > You could try partial wildcarding, like: > > $ ls *tall*build* This is often very useful, even to make typing awkward characters easier. I often use ? rather than * to reduce the risk of accidentally matching other files. --

Re: An Odd File Name

2017-02-13 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 11:06:24 -0600 "Martin McCormick" wrote: > I downloaded a file from a site using lynx and the file > name is "InstallingGRFromSource#Using-the-build-gnuradio-script.gz" > Actually, the double quotes are here for clarity but the name is > as it

Re: An Odd File Name

2017-02-13 Thread David Wright
On Mon 13 Feb 2017 at 11:06:24 (-0600), Martin McCormick wrote: > I downloaded a file from a site using lynx and the file > name is "InstallingGRFromSource#Using-the-build-gnuradio-script.gz" > Actually, the double quotes are here for clarity but the name is > as it appears including the #

Re: An Odd File Name

2017-02-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
with find but don't quote me on that. On Mon, 13 Feb 2017, Martin McCormick wrote: Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 12:06:24 From: Martin McCormick <marti...@suddenlink.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: An Odd File Name Resent-Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 17:06:46 + (UTC) Resent-From:

Re: An Odd File Name

2017-02-13 Thread Martin McCormick
First, thank you to both responders. Next, I really goofed. I forgot that gunzip normally removes the .gz file when it runs so what I had in place of the .gz file was InstallingGRFromSource#Using-the-build-gnuradio-script without the extension. I didn't even miss it when I did rm -i * so

Re: An Odd File Name

2017-02-13 Thread John Darrah
On 2/13/2017 9:09 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: gunzip InstallingGRFromSource#Using-the-build-gnuradio-script.gz Just quote the filename like this: gunzip 'InstallingGRFromSource#Using-the-build-gnuradio-script.gz' -- john

Re: An Odd File Name

2017-02-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 11:06:24AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > I downloaded a file from a site using lynx and the file > name is "InstallingGRFromSource#Using-the-build-gnuradio-script.gz" > Actually, the double quotes are here for clarity but the name is > as it appears including the #

An Odd File Name

2017-02-13 Thread Martin McCormick
I downloaded a file from a site using lynx and the file name is "InstallingGRFromSource#Using-the-build-gnuradio-script.gz" Actually, the double quotes are here for clarity but the name is as it appears including the # sign. Ls sees it and rm -i would remove it if I let it but if I do: