On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Chris wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote: > > > the backslash is the shell's delimiting character, and the shell will not > > > try to expand anything directly after a backslash. > > This is the best thing to try first - although I have seen some things > > that even this won't work on. > > > > Chris > > Such as what? > > -Greg > >From memory it was some rather strange control characters (it may have been delete keycodes or similar - can't really remember). I still don't know how the user managed to get them into a file name! Also, just out of interest, you can also enclose alot of those strange characters (such as ~) in single quotes (ie '~'). This also acts as a delimeter. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
