Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!bria!mike
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Help!  There's a slash '/' in my filename.
Message-ID: <413@bria>
Date: 2 Feb 91 18:23:26 GMT
References: <821@nddsun1.sps.mot.com> <11714@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Reply-To: uunet!bria!mike (Michael Stefanik)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Briareus Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
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In an article, tamuts.tamu.edu!n138ct (Brent Burton) writes:
>shouldn't something like:  rm "slash/file"
>work OK? [ ... ]

No, this won't work.  The kernel does the translation of pathname to inode,
and the slash is considered a inviolate holy relic.  The shell has nothing
to do with this translation, so escaping, quoting, etc. won't accomplish
anything.  A slash in a filename means a corrupted filesytem, and fsck
should be run (my flavor of fsck will complain about "illegal pathname chars"
and will replace them with hash-marks).

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Michael Stefanik                       | Opinions stated are not even my own.
Systems Engineer, Briareus Corporation | UUCP: ...!uunet!bria!mike
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