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From: jarret@golden.pvrr.saratov.su (Oleg 'Jarret' Basoff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Removing files with weird names?
Date: 7 Aug 1995 11:43:42 GMT
Organization: Lawyer Company "Dregs&Slime"
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Somewhere in time Victor Rotanov from Victor_Rotanov@p0.f58.n5100.z2.fidonet.org
wrote in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:
: 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 prefer to use '.\' instead of '\'.
--
:: Oleg Basoff (jarret@golden.pvrr.saratov.su) ::
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: Don't want no more of the crying game : Omne animal triste post coitum :
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