Re: rm difficult filename

From: John Summerfield (debian_at_ComputerDatasafe.com.au)
Date: 09/08/04

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    Jason Rennie wrote:

    >On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 04:21:12PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
    >
    >
    >>Often, too, you can use the TAB key to advance over problematic
    >>characters, a "?" to represent one of them and "*" to represent any
    >>number of them. So
    >>
    >>rm ?rtsp-stream-over-tcp
    >>rm *over-tcp
    >>
    >>
    >
    >Hmm... I don't think this works since the shell will expand to
    >"rm -rtsp-stream-over-tcp". rm will still see the file name as an
    >option.
    >
    >

    I _am_ describing the more general case; I've already covered the
    hyphen, but it's not the only problematic character; sometimes you will
    find chars with no matching keystrokes, sometimes chars that print blank
    but aren't spaces. 

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