[plug] a file without a name

[Tamara Thompson]

Hey, thanks!  that ?  parameter is nifty!  It works with mv as well.

Yeah, I finally figured out that 177 octal was decimal 127 and the delete key, but still wasn't sure how to vi a file named <deletekey> :)

thanks a lot!
Tamara

>>> Bevan Broun <bevanb at ee.uwa.edu.au> 10/13 10:18 PM >>>
on Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 10:50:44AM +0800, Luigi Cantoni <lui at stm0001.dialix.oz.au> wrote:
> > Anybody know how to find out what a file is named if in ls it shows up with all data except the filename?  
> > 
> > ls -b   shows it as being named \177, but I can't find out anything more about the file with cat, or more, or vi.  Also 'file *' shows this file as the last entry in the list, with a : and no further data.
> > Thanks,
> > Tamara
> The file name is the delete character.
> you may find things like vi ? will work.
> It will vi all single character names and this file is a single
> character name so it should do it. You can use the same trick
> to delete it (warning you may need -i to not delete other files).
> There are several other ways but this one should work.

"ls -l > tmp.out && vi" tmp.out to find out what unprintable char(s) the
file name.  

BB
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