Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-07 Thread Lex Chive
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 03:08:55PM -0500, Michael Merten wrote: > On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 03:08:20PM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > > > > > I have a file named : > > > > > > ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ > > > > > > ..

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Michael Merten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It does look like escape sequences, but what key would produce ?[4~ > ... the closest I can find is PgDn which produces ^[[4~. Is there > a table/chart/listing of these somewhere for a linux term? console_codes(4), but I donĀ“t know how the codes men

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Michael Merten
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 03:08:20PM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > > > I have a file named : > > > > ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ > > > > ... in my home directory. > > > > I am wondering how to escape this properly for

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Nathan Duehr
This worked. I feel silly... that was TOO simple. Thanks Shao. p.s. Using single-quotes didn't work, unless I misread and it was supposed to be single-backquotes? On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: > have you tried > > rm ./?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ > > > On Wed, Au

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Eberhard Burr
Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a file named : > > ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ > > ... in my home directory. > > I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in > bash. bash will properly escape it if you use file-name completion. Thus if yo

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Alex Shnitman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > > > I have a file named : > > > > ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ > > > > ... in my home directory. > > > > I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > I have a file named : > > ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ > > ... in my home directory. > > I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in > bash. Most people told you to rm ./file or rm 'file' but

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > I have a file named : > > ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ > > ... in my home directory. > > I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in > bash. > > Someone suggested using Midnight Commander, but

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Shao Zhang
have you tried rm ./?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > I have a file named : > > ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ > > ... in my home directory. > > I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work o

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Ludovic Paquet
Nate Duehr wrote: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. Someone suggested using Midnight Commander, but it doesn't even list it as showing up in the directory, so it obv

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Michael Merten
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > I have a file named : > > ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ > > ... in my home directory. > > I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in > bash. > > For this one, I'd just enclose the filename in

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Mark Wagnon
Nate Duehr wrote: > > I have a file named : > > ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ > > ... in my home directory. > have you tried 'rm ./FILE'? There are several ways to delete files with weird filenames. There was a thread on it last month. Take a look at: http://www.debian.org/L

How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Nate Duehr
I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. Someone suggested using Midnight Commander, but it doesn't even list it as showing up in the directory, so it obviously doesn't