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Re: [Help-bash] Non printable ASCII characters in a file name


From: Bill Gradwohl
Subject: Re: [Help-bash] Non printable ASCII characters in a file name
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:04:30 -0600

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Greg Wooledge <address@hidden> wrote:
If you want to enter the character explicitly, then you can use bash's
$'...' quoting:

$ ls -b foobar*baz
foobar\002baz
$ mv $'foobar\002baz' foobarbaz


Didn't know you could put normal characters inside $''.

I never new what man ls meant by "nongraphic characters". Now I know.

Learn something new every day. Thanks.


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Bill Gradwohl


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