Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 03:08:20PM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote:
> 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.
>
> Most people told you to rm ./file or rm 'file' but that won't work of
> course since you can't input the filename from the keyboard at
> all. (The name as you typed it looks like it consists of escape
> sequences, not something you can easily type on the keyboard.) So it's
> a better idea to use the shell's wildcard expansion to do the work for
> you. You can type rm -i * and then answer n for every file except for
> this one.
It does look like escape sequences, but what key would produce ?[4~
... the closest I can find is PgDn which produces ^[[4~. Is there
a table/chart/listing of these somewhere for a linux term?
Mike
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