From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 5 17: 8:57 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 7750F37B401 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 17:08:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B36D843F3F for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 17:08:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with ESMTP id <200302060108550020035eoge>; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 01:08:55 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1618s79008311; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 20:08:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h1618r6k008308; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 20:08:53 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: Walter Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: handling non-printable characters in file names References: <3E4157E9.3030203@earthlink.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 05 Feb 2003 20:08:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: <3E4157E9.3030203@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <44of5qcj16.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Walter writes: > 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. The manual for rm(1) covers this. > Also, is there a way to configure FBSD from accepting > non-printable characters in file names? No. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message