Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!howell@MITRE.ARPA From: howell@MITRE.ARPA (Chuck Howell) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Bizzare Filenames Message-ID: <10612@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 13-May-85 08:18:57 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.10612 Posted: Mon May 13 08:18:57 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 16-May-85 03:20:51 EDT Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 8 > 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. If you really want to know the (non-printing) characters in your filename, you can always ls > somefile.tmp, then vi (or emacs, or od -c, or whatever...) somefile.tmp. [This works on ULTRIX anyway].