escaping filenames

[Thomas Stivers]

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On Fri, Aug 13 2004 at 02:18:35PM -0400, Terry D. Cudney wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 	In this thread, how do I get rid of a file that shows up in an 'ls' listings as "^K". It is a zero length file, but persistently there.

Well that is likely a control k character and a bit funny to type. One way is to use control-v to escape the next control char, so you would do control-v control-k as the argument to an rm or mv command. Another nifty trick is to use ls and find to get crazy files by their inode number. For example:
~$ ls -i
 77871 bin
 78082 lynx_bookmarks.html
 93045 Maildir
108489 tmp
 93244 xml
~$ find ~ -inum 93244
/home/stivers_t/xml

Its kind of a cluge, but it was the only way back in the days of funky terminals that didn't do control characters. 

HTH or at least hope it was interesting.

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Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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