Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)
On Saturday 25 August 2001 06:56, Paul Mackinney wrote:
> Karsten M. Self muttered:
> > on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 11:17:32AM +1000, Brian May
> > (bam@debian.org) wrote: I'm trying to remember a trick (probably in
> > O'Reilly's _UNIX Power Tools_) for removing files by inode...
>
> Arg. In my first System V admin class, the instructor showed us how
> to specify the filename in octal so that you could manipulate
> filenames with un-typable chars. I realize that this trick would
> probably fail here (a dash - is a dash - is a dash -), but can anyone
> remind me how to do this?
>
> Paul
The usual way of specifying octal is "\0xx" replacing xx by the
appropriate digits.
:
The "-b" option to ls will show you these...
Cliff
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