Funny file names
Steve Schoch
schoch at ucbvax.ARPA
Tue May 14 03:02:34 AEST 1985
In article <279 at eneevax.UUCP>, phaedrus at eneevax.UUCP (The Sophist) writes:
> What happens if one (by mistake) creates a file called `ctl-foo' and one
> didn't know that this was happening. The next time they did an `ls'
> of that directory they'd get a `?' and it would be impossible to remove
> because they don't know the name.
>
> Can someone explain this to me?
You can say "ls | cat -v". Ls will print the control characters when its
output is not a terminal.
Steve Schoch
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