Re: removing files with unprintable characters in their filename
How about shells other than bash?
Is there a shell independant way of doing this?
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Mark T. Valites wrote:
> Pietro,
>
> Thank you very much for the reply!!!
>
> THe --escape and -b are the same options, with the same output, but the
> $'<ouput>' was new to me & works.
>
> I have always though to completely understand shell quoting is to become
> one with the shell...
>
> Thanks!!
>
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Pietro Cagnoni wrote:
>
> > Mark T. Valites wrote:
> > > Every once in a while, either a user somehow comes up with a file with
> > > funky characters, or I create one by accident. When displayed through a
> > > 'ls', the non-printable characters are displayed with "?"s. The "?"s are
> > > not literal question marks, but just represent an unprintable character.
> > >
> > > Without using shell meta characters (*), C, perl, loops, find or anything
> > > other than just the rm command, I haven't been able to figure out how to
> > > remove this file. There has to be a way to get rid of it with rm, but I
> > > have had no such luck with it so far by quoting, escaping, using "--",
> > > "./" or any other magic I can think of.
> >
> > with a little help from man ls && man bash:
> >
> > ls --escape will print the escape sequences for funky characters;
> >
> > rm $'<pasted from ls --escape output>' will then work.
> >
> > hope this helps!
> >
> > pietro.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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