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Subject: RE: Pesky file
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 20:03:46 -0500
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$ touch -- -^H\*^H
$ ls
-?*?
$ rm -- -^H\*^H

My shell is bash, and I enter this in as:

touch -- -^V<BS>\*^V<BS>
rm -- -^V<BS>\*^V<BS>

Trivial.  What's my prize?

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  Troy Settle
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It's always a long day, 86400 doesn't fit into a short



** -----Original Message-----
** From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
** [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Cliff Sarginson
** Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 7:17 PM
** To: Ryan Younce; Joe Oliveiro
** Cc: Mike Meyer; Larry Rosenman; Daniel.Bye@uk.uu.net;
** questions@freebsd.org
** Subject: Re: Pesky file
** 
** 
** Mmm..
** It's nearly Christmas so a small prize may be awarded
** if you can get rid of a file whose name is
** 
** -<bs>*<bs>
** 
** Where <bs> is the backspace character.
** 
** zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
**  
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