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- From: faber@loon.cs.wisc.edu (Ted Faber)
- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- Subject: Re: First Post
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.130823.28688@cs.wisc.edu>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 13:08:23 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.035734.7594@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
- Sender: news@cs.wisc.edu (The News)
- Organization: U of Wisconsin Madison - Computer Sciences
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- Approved: immoral@minority.com
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- In <1992Aug14.035734.7594@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> apollo@ee.ualberta.ca (Apollo Wong) writes:
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- >
- >ObHack: Use Emacs to patch the directory so that filenames with character '&'
- > in it can be moved.
-
- Hurm. I hate to flame what was undoubtably a worthwhile learning
- experience about (blech) Emacs and the file system you're working
- on, but on most systems the easiest way to solve that problem is to
- use quoting to mask the "&" from the shell. On most unix boxes, for
- example, under most shells
-
- mv file_with_an_\& another_\&_name
-
- or
-
- mv 'file_with_an_&' 'another_&_name'
-
- does what you want.
-
- Like I say, not a flame, but an attempt to make your life easier
- next time.
-
- I can't think of a good ObHack.
-
- >--
- >| Apollo WONG S.Y.
-
- "You've really got your banter worked out haven't you"
- "No, this is a new and spontaneous thing. It's called wit" ---BLACK ADDER III
-
- --
- Ted Faber Figment at Large faber@loon.cs.wisc.edu
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