Help! There's a slash '/' in my filename.
Melinda Shore
shore at mtxinu.COM
Tue Feb 5 10:13:54 AEST 1991
In article <2665 at trlluna.trl.oz> mcf at trlamct.trl.oz.au (Michael Flower) writes:
>The problem is NOT fixable using other UNIX commands, since they all reference
>the file via namei, which knows about '/' as being a path component
>seperator.
This is not really true. adb is certainly up to the job, and I suspect
that emacs could do the trick, too. As long as you can get into the raw
device you have many options for changing the filename.
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Melinda Shore shore at mtxinu.com
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