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From: jiii@visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Ugly file name
Keywords: rm cat mv regexp
Message-ID: <535@visdc.UUCP>
Date: 13 May 89 20:07:41 GMT
References: <128@tdl.UUCP> <7170@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <12970@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: jiii@visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III)
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In article <12970@ut-emx.UUCP> dlnash@ut-emx.UUCP (Donald L. Nash) writes:
>
> It is the shells, which assign special meanings to certain characters,
> which are the root of the problem.  I always thought that some
> combination of backslashes, single quotes, and double quotes would
> convince a shell to allow any character (other than control characters)
> in a filename ...

When your back is up against the wall, the following construct can be
used to replace any argument and will allow you to do anything you want:

	"`echo '\xxx\xxx\xxx\c'`"

where xxx is any octal number.
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John E Van Deusen III, PO Box 9283, Boise, ID  83707, (208) 343-1865

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