Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 12:59:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to delete strange filename Message-ID: <199603051300.NAA03138@CoDe.CoDe.hu>
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> The problem only is that sometimes the filename contains ctrl characters > <cr>, backspace and such and you can't figure out what the filename really > is. Not a big problem: the manual says, there is a -q option, force printing of non-graphics characters in file names as a '?'. This is the default when output is to a terminal. So -> don't use the -q option, and type: ls -l | cat -tv (the output won't go to terminal, so -q won't be in the option list, and cat -tv print non-graphics characters as ^X). It's better in AT&T Unices, where ls has an option (-b), which does the same thing, but use \octal instead of ^X. -- Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu> -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- Earth is the cradle of human sense, but you can't stay in the cradle forever. Tsiolkovsky
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