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From: stan@bombay.gps.caltech.edu ("Stan")
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Removing files with weird names?
Date: 27 Jul 1995 20:03:40 GMT
Organization: USGS
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Message-ID: <3v8res$406@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Reply-To: stan@bombay.gps.caltech.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: bombay.gps.caltech.edu
I transferred a couple of files to my FreeBSD system last night. I used
Kermit to do the transfer, and the filenames include the "$" character.
Now I can't do anything with them, since when I tried to rename them, I got
an error where it stripped out the "$" and tried to interpret the character
after it as a variable. What do I do about this?
Also, on an unrelated note: Is there a book I can get that gives a good
introduction to X programming? Since I got X working now, I want to try
my hand at programming. I do well in C, so this shouldn't be too hard, but
I am looking for a good guidebook. Any suggestions?
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