Ugly file name

[John E Van Deusen III]

In article <12970 at ut-emx.UUCP> dlnash at ut-emx.UUCP (Donald L. Nash) writes:
>
> It is the shells, which assign special meanings to certain characters,
> which are the root of the problem.  I always thought that some
> combination of backslashes, single quotes, and double quotes would
> convince a shell to allow any character (other than control characters)
> in a filename ...

When your back is up against the wall, the following construct can be
used to replace any argument and will allow you to do anything you want:

	"`echo '\xxx\xxx\xxx\c'`"

where xxx is any octal number.
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