From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 5 10:27:42 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14ED437B405 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 10:27:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B95643FA3 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 10:27:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from walterk1@earthlink.net) Received: from user-0cal9lv.cable.mindspring.com ([24.170.166.191] helo=earthlink.net) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18gUGo-0004uW-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 10:27:38 -0800 Message-ID: <3E4157E9.3030203@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 13:28:57 -0500 From: Walter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: handling non-printable characters in file names Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, Leaving out the details, I need to know how to navigate directories and remove files that use non- printable characters in their names. du and ls show me they're there, but I can't figure out how to make cd work, or rm either. Fwiw, the non-printable char is \225. Lynx was not able to see the directory either, but maybe because it began with a ". " - I don't know. Also, is there a way to configure FBSD from accepting non-printable characters in file names? Thanks in advance. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message