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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: perl question about > in file name
Keywords: perl
Message-ID: <8163@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: 5 Jun 89 07:24:06 GMT
References: <123@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <40899@bbn.COM>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <40899@bbn.COM> cosell@BBN.COM (Bernie Cosell) writes:
 > In article <123@zip.eecs.umich.edu> don@zippy.eecs.umich.edu (Don Winsor) writes:
 > }Does anyone know if there is any way to make "perl" read from a
 > }file whose name begins with a ">" character?  
 > 
 > How about the standard unix tricks for dealing with that sort of problem:
 > either reference the file as "./>myfile" or as "/usr/home/me/dir/>myfile"?
 > 
Except that those do not work.  Not with the Bourne shell nor with the Korn
shell.  With the shells you have to quote.
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