Re: A funny little mistake
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Chris wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote:
> > > the backslash is the shell's delimiting character, and the shell will not
> > > try to expand anything directly after a backslash.
> > This is the best thing to try first - although I have seen some things
> > that even this won't work on.
> >
> > Chris
>
> Such as what?
>
> -Greg
>
>From memory it was some rather strange control characters (it may have
been delete keycodes or similar - can't really remember). I still don't
know how the user managed to get them into a file name!
Also, just out of interest, you can also enclose alot of those strange
characters (such as ~) in single quotes (ie '~'). This also acts as a
delimeter.
Chris
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