Re: rm difficult filename

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Jason Rennie wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 04:21:12PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
>  
>
> > Often, too, you can use the TAB key to advance over problematic 
> > characters, a "?" to represent one of them and "*" to represent any 
> > number of them. So
> >
> > rm ?rtsp-stream-over-tcp
> > rm *over-tcp
> >    
>
> Hmm... I don't think this works since the shell will expand to
> "rm -rtsp-stream-over-tcp".  rm will still see the file name as an
> option.
>  

I _am_ describing the more general case; I've already covered the 
hyphen, but it's not the only problematic character; sometimes you will 
find chars with no matching keystrokes, sometimes chars that print blank 
but aren't spaces.



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