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From: gwoho@nntp-server.caltech.edu (g liu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: removing file w/ ^J with csh is strange.
Message-ID: <1991Apr1.145556.3160@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 1 Apr 91 14:55:56 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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i accidently created a file named "aa
" with a bad program. trying to remove it with csh, i used

rm "aa\
"

but it said that it could not remove the file: "a
"
so i tried rm "aaa\
"
and it worked. this seems very strange to me, and i can not
figure out why it works that way. i've not tried doing such things
with sh.

i am running xenix2.0, a 6 year old os.

please explain to my why this is so. i thank you in advance for
any replies.

gwoho liu