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From: ahby@meccts.UUCP (Shane P. McCarron)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Bizzare Filenames
Message-ID: <123@meccts.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 19-May-85 11:19:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: meccts.123
Posted: Sun May 19 11:19:57 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 22-May-85 01:59:00 EDT
References: <10612@brl-tgr.ARPA>, <38@rtp47.UUCP>
Organization: MECC Technical Services, St.Paul, MN
Lines: 18
Keywords: ls, filenames, csh, sh

>> 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].

Another method, although somewhat less accurate, would be to type 
'rm *foo'.  This should eliminate the entire problem.
-- 

Shane P. McCarron
Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation - Technical Services

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