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Exactly. On all my other machines it works the way it is supposed to. Unfortunately I don't exactly have the choice to re-install, or use another machine.
Other commands work the same way too. openssl for instance is affected too.
Jeez, well hopefully it isn't going to matter. It seems that if I:
mkdir *test
and it creates:
\*test/
I can still rm -d *test
and it will work. I am hoping that even though it shows up as:
\*test
that I can still create manipulate and delete it by its given name of *test. In other words, despite having the \ character in front of it, I don't need to use the \ character to refer to it when performing any kind of adds deletes or changes. So I guess the problem is actually a non-problem? I HOPE so.
Does it give you a forwardslash (I think that that was a typo) or a backslash?
I guess that the last one makes sense. The backslash is the escape character indicating that the next character has to be taken literally (as you already mentioned). It will not be in the actual filename, but only in the representation in the shell.
'*' and '@' have special meanings, '*' as wildcard character and '@' for symbolic links (if I'm correct).
I suppose that there are a few more (question-mark and ...).
Please note the command rmdir *test. It removes all 'test' directories as the '*' is the wildcard. Doing the same, but adding a backslash before the asterisk only deletes the intended directory.
PS using slackware 10.1
Last edited by Wim Sturkenboom; 05-03-2006 at 10:47 AM.
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