On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 03:08:20PM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > > > I have a file named : > > > > ?????[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ > > > > ... in my home directory. > > > > I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in > > bash. > > Most people told you to rm ./file or rm 'file' but that won't work of > course since you can't input the filename from the keyboard at > all. (The name as you typed it looks like it consists of escape > sequences, not something you can easily type on the keyboard.) So it's > a better idea to use the shell's wildcard expansion to do the work for > you. You can type rm -i * and then answer n for every file except for > this one.
It does look like escape sequences, but what key would produce ?[4~ ... the closest I can find is PgDn which produces ^[[4~. Is there a table/chart/listing of these somewhere for a linux term? Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten ---> E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---> NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org ---> Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org ---> CenLA-LUG Founder -- http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug -- Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat. -- Rule 46, Oxford Union Society, London