On Saturday 25 August 2001 06:56, Paul Mackinney wrote: > Karsten M. Self muttered: > > on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 11:17:32AM +1000, Brian May > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm trying to remember a trick (probably in > > O'Reilly's _UNIX Power Tools_) for removing files by inode... > > Arg. In my first System V admin class, the instructor showed us how > to specify the filename in octal so that you could manipulate > filenames with un-typable chars. I realize that this trick would > probably fail here (a dash - is a dash - is a dash -), but can anyone > remind me how to do this? > > Paul
The usual way of specifying octal is "\0xx" replacing xx by the appropriate digits. : The "-b" option to ls will show you these... Cliff
