Try putting two \\ so the escape will be used as it was meant to be, to
keep special characters from being treated like special characters.
I.e. \* \? \\ etc.
Karl
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 15:52, 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 and ignored or removed when you try to reference them. Eg: echo
> "hello\there" displays "hellothere".
>
> Does anyone know how to ensure that the unix shell treats these as literal
> text? Note that {}, quotes, and double-quotes don't seem to work.
>
> To elaborate (you can ignore this if you like)...
>
> Cutdown example of what I'm trying to do (ksh):
>
> $ 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
>
> Note: The 'find' produces the correct names, but subsequent unix commands
> missinterpret the meaning. Because the '\' is stripped, the ls command
> tries to list D_TRAN.EXT-14320S1??4-DF instead of TRAN.EXT-14320S1??\4-DF,
> and of course the file is not found.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> LeRoi
>
> LeRoi Keiller
> Technical Support Consultant
>
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