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From: wfh58@leah.Albany.Edu (William F. Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ARP1.3 questions
Summary: Another special-character-in-filenames
Keywords: ARP
Message-ID: <2284@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 13 Dec 89 18:08:04 GMT
References: <6417@tank.uchicago.edu> <2630@umbc3.UMBC.EDU>
Organization: Dept of Math & Stat, SUNYA, Albany, NY
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In article<2630@umbc3.UMBC.EDU>,wicks@umbc3.UMBC.EDU(Mr. Tony Wicks )writes:
> . . .
>                                                          I had just
> entered rm #?~ when I decided to see just how many files that was, so
> I hit ^U and typed list #?~.  Low and behold: I got a listing of my
> entire directory.
***
The character '~' is an ARP special-character-in-filenames.  Thus to see
a list of files with names ending in that character the correct syntax is:
      list *'~
or, if you prefer,
      list #?'~
using the unique character in the string "'" as the ARP escape for
special-characters-in-filenames.  (See my earlier posting of this date
under the subject "Phantom of the operating system".)
In fact, I find the following alias useful:
alias detilda  delete []*'~ ask
In this form it won't handle filenames that need to be quoted.  (If you want
to know how to re-wire this alias for that send me email.)  The syntax:
   detilda
does a query-delete on files ending in '~' in the current directory, while
   detilda foo
does a query-delete on files beginning in "foo" and ending in '~', and
   detilda devs:foo     OR    detilda dirname/foo   OR    detilda dirname/
are other possible options.
> . . .
> I must have missed the sentence in the ARP manual that states that ~
> is some special character.  Is there a way to turn this off?  Is this
> part of ASH and not part of the arp.library argument processing?  
***
It's ARP command argument processing.  I don't know how to turn it off.
> . . .
>                          wicks@umbc3.umbc.edu, wicks@mst1.bal.mmc.com
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