Bizzare Filenames

Wally Dixon dixon at rtp47.UUCP
Tue May 14 22:54:12 AEST 1985


For those of you with System V Release 2 Unix (or derivatives thereof),
"ls -b" will print non-graphic characters in filenames in octal \ddd notation.
This is much simpler than ls'ing, then vi'ing or piping through cat -v.
For those without system V.2 ls, another way is to "od ." . You will see
some extra junk, but the filenames should be recongnizable, and followed
by \000.



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