Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...
This worked. I feel silly... that was TOO simple.
Thanks Shao.
p.s. Using single-quotes didn't work, unless I misread and it was supposed
to be single-backquotes?
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Shao Zhang wrote:
> have you tried
>
> rm ./?????[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
> > I have a file named :
> >
> > ?????[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~
> >
> > ... in my home directory.
> >
> > I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in
> > bash.
> >
> > Someone suggested using Midnight Commander, but it doesn't even list
> > it as showing up in the directory, so it obviously doesn't know what to
> > do with it either!
> >
> > Any shell-heads out there want to take a stab at it? It's not really
> > bothering me, but it's just sitting there at the top of every 'ls'...
> > (:
> >
> >
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