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Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!univ-lyon1.fr!news-rocq.inria.fr!news2.EUnet.fr!EU.net!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!demos!sarnod!pvrr!golden!golden.pvrr.saratov.su!jarret 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" Lines: 24 Message-ID: <404u9e$2gd@golden.pvrr.saratov.su> References: <64116C7@p0.f128.n5100.z2.fidonet.org> <301c55a1@p0.f58.n5100.z2.fidonet.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: golden.pvrr.saratov.su X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Somewhere in time Victor Rotanov from Victor_Rotanov@p0.f58.n5100.z2.fidonet.org wrote in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc: : TO: stan@bombay.gps.caltech.edu : Hello, stan@bombay.gps.caltech.edu! : 27 Jul 95 20:03, stan@bombay.gps.caltech.edu wrote to All: : [...] : s> Now I can't do anything with them, since when I tried to rename them, I got : s> an error where it stripped out the "$" 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) :: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: : Don't want no more of the crying game : Omne animal triste post coitum : :::::::::::::::::: Boy George :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::