[plug] Filename star

[Neil Gerace]

----- Original Message -----
From: Subba Rao <subb3 at attglobal.net>

> How do you search for files, with meta characters as their names?

You could try

$ cd /
$ ls -R \*

The backslash makes the shell treat the next character as just a normal one
without any meta meaning.
This should find all files whose names are just an asterisk. Likewise for
files named ? or [ etc.

Hope this helps
Neil Gerace
geracen at wantree.com.au
RH 6.0