From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 11 09:22:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA10415 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 09:22:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ds9.dreamhaven.org (dt093n15.san.rr.com [204.210.49.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA10410 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 09:22:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from data@dreamhaven.net) Received: (qmail 18589 invoked by uid 1010); 11 Oct 1998 16:21:58 -0000 Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 09:21:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Newall X-Sender: data@ds9.dreamhaven.org To: Daniel Haischt cc: FreeBSD MailingList Subject: Re: deleting a directory with specil characters In-Reply-To: <000d01bdf50c$38df1a80$18a902c3@abyssone> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id JAA10411 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Daniel Haischt wrote: > A friend of mine created a directory called 'Startmenü'. > (Don't how he did that) > > Here my question: How can I delete those directorys like the one above. There are 2 ways you could do this: 1) Escape the | character with a backslash, i.e.: rm Startmen\| 2) Use a shell that does filename completion, like bash or tcsh. Then type "rm Startme", and before hitting ENTER, hit the TAB key, which will make the shell complete the filename. The shell will automatically escape the | character for you, and after it completes the filename, then hit ENTER to remove it. ********************************************************************** * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.net * * WWW: http://home.dreamhaven.net/~data * * "Insanity takes its toll. Please have exact change." * ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message