3/20/2007
Selecting Filenames with Non-Standard Characters in the Filename from the Shell
An erroneous cut and paste in an iTerm left me with a group of empty files named after hex color codes.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 20 16:54 #ffffb0,
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 20 16:54 #ffd850,
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 20 16:54 #ff50a8,
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 20 16:54 #cceedd,
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 20 16:54 #c8c8ff,
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 20 16:54 #ffd850,
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 20 16:54 #ff50a8,
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 20 16:54 #cceedd,
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 20 16:54 #c8c8ff,
Trying to delete them provided a little bit of a problem:
[root@atlas bugs]# rm #*
rm: too few arguments
Try `rm --help' for more information.
rm: too few arguments
Try `rm --help' for more information.
The problem was the pound (#) character, the initial character in the filenames.
A little trial and error and I remembered a trick from my DOS day and working with long file names:
[root@atlas bugs]# rm "#"*
rm: remove regular empty file '#c8c8ff,'? y
rm: remove regular empty file '#cceedd,'? y
rm: remove regular empty file '#ff50a8,'? y
rm: remove regular empty file '#ffd850,'? y
rm: remove regular empty file '#ffffb0,'? y
rm: remove regular empty file '#c8c8ff,'? y
rm: remove regular empty file '#cceedd,'? y
rm: remove regular empty file '#ff50a8,'? y
rm: remove regular empty file '#ffd850,'? y
rm: remove regular empty file '#ffffb0,'? y
Quoting the entire string "#*" won't work because of globbing the quotes make the asterisk part of the string and are never expanded.
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