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From: dillon@best.com (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Removing files with weird names?
Date: 31 Jul 1995 13:05:21 -0700
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:In article <301c55a1@p0.f58.n5100.z2.fidonet.org>,
:Victor Rotanov <Victor_Rotanov@p0.f58.n5100.z2.fidonet.org> wrote:
:>TO: stan@bombay.gps.caltech.edu
:>
:>Hello, stan@bombay.gps.caltech.edu!
:>
:>27 Jul 95 20:03, stan@bombay.gps.caltech.edu wrote to All:
:>
:>[...]
:>
:> s> Now I can't do anything with them, since when I tried to rename them, I got
:> s> an error where it stripped out the "$" and tried to interpret the
:> s> character after it as a variable. What do I do about this?
:>
:>Try '\' before '$'.
I always do a 'rm -i *' or a 'rm -ri parent_directory' and then pick
and choose which file(s) I want to delete. You can play the same trick
with 'cd'... if you want to cd into a weirdly named directory,
give cd a wildcard that uniquely identifies the directory. This way
you can avoid having to figure out the correct ^V escapes and
backslashes.
(be careful with rm though, if you forget the 'i' you will get into
trouble).
-Matt