Funny file names

[Steve Schoch]

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