Re: [PLUG] escaping on teh commandline..

[Kyle Burton <mortis@voicenet.com>]

Thanks to the consistieny of the Unix environment.  You just cut to one of
the core reasons why it's such a rockin OS.  There is _real_ consistiency
in how things work.

just had to add that...
k

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On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Vale Kenny wrote:

> ok, I realize that this is probably old hat to most of you, but it'll probably
> save quite a bit of hassle for some.
> 
> I accidentally named a file " \ "  when saving in vi
> now as we learned yesterday, the " \ " character is a line continuation in most
> shells (all shells?), so if you do a 
> cp \ blah
> you'll get a 
> >
> awaiting more input, or conversely, if you do a 
> rm \
> you'll get the same 
> >
> prompt..
> so I looked at it for a few seconds, and I *felt* the blocks click into place in
> the old brain.. you have to _escape_ it first.  in C, a \ is an escape to a
> format command hence the " \n " for a newline.  to actually print a \ in a
> string of text, you have to place a double backslash " \\ "
> so, to remove or rename a file named " \ " you would enter
> mv ./\\ blah
> 
> again, this is probably old hat to most of you, but the key for me was the
> discovery itself...it was really cool to feel the connections being made in my
> head.. I just sat back for two seconds, and click, clickclick, *pop* out came
> the answer..
> <Grin> Peace,
> Vale
> 
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