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 single quotes like rm '<file>' which should prevent shell interpretation of the ~,? and [ characters. Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten ---> E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---> NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org ---> Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org ---> CenLA-LUG Founder -- http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug -- I just thought of something funny...your mother. --Cheech Marin