Date: 18 Dec 2001 19:05:22 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rm a file named "-l"? ;-) Message-ID: <wfadwfzz7x.dwf@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011218014357.02b7f6d8@mail.enterit.com> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011217163005.034eacc0@mail.enterit.com> <rl7krl3731.krl@localhost.localdomain> <20011217111215.I21241@xs4all.nl> <20011217111215.I21241@xs4all.nl> <5.1.0.14.0.20011217163005.034eacc0@mail.enterit.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20011218014357.02b7f6d8@mail.enterit.com>
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Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com> writes:
> In bash and ksh (perhaps sh but doubtful) you can do ctrl+v control-char
> to get any control character to be placed on the command line.
>
> unlink (ctrl+v)(ctrl+m)file == unlink ^Mfile
But that's only good if you know what the characters are and how many.
Often, they just look like "?" or a bunch of spaces. Last resort is
still "rm -i *", but ctrl+v is a nice tip anyway. Thanks.
> Actually, according to the man page, this unlink should be able to do
> directories if you use -d, -R, or -r command line switches. Although, I
> did not test this.
I only read this part:
When the utility is called as unlink, only one argument, which must not
be a directory, may be supplied.
Apparently the "rm" command supports it (with those options), despite
what the DESCRIPTION says.
P.S. That "ctrl+v" thing really suprised me (in pdksh); as soon as you
type it, the command line is replaced by "PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2"
(SUPRISE!) until you type something else which seems to accept some
control characters as literals and others as command-editing commands.
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