LeRoi Keiller wrote: > A number of our uniVerse files have the \ symbol in the file > names. Problem is, at unix level, these \ fellows are usually treated as 'escape' > characters
Problem is there are a number of characters which have significant meaning to pretty much every shell program that you might use on UNIX and '\' is one of them. You really want to try avoiding these special characters if you need to interact with the files via a shell. > $ ls TRAN* > TRAN.EXT-14320S1??\4-DF > TRAN.EXT-14320S1??\5-DF > (note the '\' in the file names) > $ find TRAN* -print | while read file > do > ls -l $file" > done > TRAN.EXT-14320S1??4-DF not found If you just want to delete the files then rm -i TRAN* will probably work. Otherwise you may be better off setting up a VOC pointer to the appropriate directory so you can see it as a Type 19 file and process the contents in BASIC. Cheers, Ken ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
