Peng Yu wrote: > I have some filenames that have the character ^J. I can not figure out > a way to input such a character. Does anybody know if it is possible > to input ^J?
Several ways. One is you can quote the characters "verbatim" with C-v before the character. As in C-v C-j. (A.K.A. ^v ^j) But since it is also a character in the IFS (input field separator) you would need to quote it to prevent it from being lost on the command line as whitespace. Since you are quoting it you can simply enter a real newline. Either way that looks the same after entering it. ls -ldbog "foo bar" -rw-rw-r-- 1 0 Jul 18 17:45 foo\nbar Lastly since ^J is a newline you can generate one with echo "\n". Bob
