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From: cowan@dover.sps.mot.com (Andrew H Cowan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Help!  There's a slash '/' in my filename.
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Date: 1 Feb 91 16:09:02 GMT
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Reply-To: cowan@soleil.sps.mot.com (Andrew H Cowan)
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I don't know how it happened... but I've got a directory (on a
Sun OS 4.0.3 machine) that contains two files with the slash '/'
character embedded in the filenames.  I recall a discussion about bogus
filenames in this group a while back, did anybody ever figure out how
to deal with filenames that contain slashes?

Now that I've got 'em, how can I get rid of them?

Its a tricky problem, because it seems that every command on the system 
tries to follow the name like it is a directory path.  Thus, every command 
returns "file or directory not found".  Wildcarding to uniquely identify 
the files is no help because the expanded filenames contain slashes. 

Help!!


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