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From: schoch@ucbvax.ARPA (Steve Schoch)
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Subject: Re: Funny file names
Message-ID: <6968@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 13-May-85 13:02:34 EDT
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Summary: ls can print control characters

In article <279@eneevax.UUCP>, phaedrus@eneevax.UUCP (The Sophist) writes:
> What happens if one (by mistake) creates a file called `ctl-foo' and one
> didn't know that this was happening.  The next time they did an `ls'
> of that directory they'd get a `?' and it would be impossible to remove
> because they don't know the name.
> 
> Can someone explain this to me?

You can say "ls | cat -v".  Ls will print the control characters when its
output is not a terminal.
				Steve Schoch