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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Subject: Re: removing file w/ ^J with csh is strange.
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.142937.4971@athena.mit.edu>
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Date: Wed, 3 Apr 91 14:29:37 GMT
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In article <1991Apr1.145556.3160@nntp-server.caltech.edu>, gwoho@nntp-server.caltech.edu (g liu) writes:
|> 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.

% touch "aa\
"
% ls
aa?
% rm "aa\
"
% ls
%

Works for me.  Looks like a bug in your version of csh.

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