Path: utzoo!attcan!nebulus!tslanpar!ram
From: ram@tslanpar.UUCP (ram)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Need help reading a file with unusual name(s)
Summary: The backslash charachter
Keywords: help!
Message-ID: <123@tslanpar.UUCP>
Date: 17 Apr 89 18:21:25 GMT
References: <579@netcom.UUCP>
Distribution: na
Organization: TSLanpar,Toronto,Ontario
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In article <579@netcom.UUCP>, onymouse@netcom.UUCP (John DeBert) writes:
> I cannot access files with filenames containing "non-graphic" characters.
> (How they got that way, I don't know.) I have two files that I need to
> access called "maps\033w" (ls shows the name as "maps") but if I enter the
> name as shown, I still cannot access it. I also have a file of substantial
> size which has the CR character as it's filename. 
> 

Try this:

	to edit "maps\033w" type "vi maps\\033w".  This interprets the
backslash as a literal charachter rather that the introducer to a special
charachter.  Similarly, for a file with a CR try "vi filename\<cr>"

Regards,
	Richard Meesters