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#! rnews 1421 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!euryale!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!salliemae!uunet!in1.uu.net!wolf.riga.lv!castle!news-server From: Victor Rotanov <Victor_Rotanov@p0.f58.n5100.z2.fidonet.org> Subject: Removing files with weird names? Message-ID: <301c55a1@p0.f58.n5100.z2.fidonet.org> Sender: news-server@castle.riga.lv Reply-To: Victor_Rotanov@p0.f58.n5100.z2.fidonet.org Organization: Castle. (Gid:fidonet.org) References: <64116C7@p0.f128.n5100.z2.fidonet.org> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 02:00:09 GMT Lines: 24 TO: stan@bombay.gps.caltech.edu Hello, stan@bombay.gps.caltech.edu! 27 Jul 95 20:03, stan@bombay.gps.caltech.edu wrote to All: [...] s> Now I can't do anything with them, since when I tried to rename them, I got s> an error where it stripped out the "$" and tried to interpret the s> character after it as a variable. What do I do about this? Try '\' before '$'. s> -+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+- s> Stan Schwarz | "Looks like another perfect day... s> stan@bombay.gps.caltech.edu | I love L.A." - Randy Newman s> -+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+- Bye! <vitjok> --- GoldED 2.51.B1208 Registered to Victor Rotanov * Origin: ViCt0r'Z BBS, RiGA, LATViA (2:5100/58)