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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 '\'.


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               :: 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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