Hi Mikey,

A general convention for naming files that seem to work is use alphanumeric
characters, underscores,and periods in filenames

I think what the book is trying to show you is the use of an escape
character.

\ is an escape character.

Try man bash and search for escape

Hope this helps some.

Todd

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Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 8:23 PM
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Subject: writing special characters

Gentlemen,

I am going through another Linux book and one of the exercises wants me to 
create a file, and then vopy that file to a new name.
 Here are the procedures done:

 touch andor
 mv andor 'and\/or'

but it doesn't work. The error it gives is:
 
 mv: cannot move `andor' to `and\\/or': No such file or directory

when I attempt it a backslash rather than the quote (mv andor and\\/or & mv 
andor and\\\/or) it says the same thing. The odd thing that I notice is that

out of all of these the error message remained exactly the same (this 
includes what they say they cannot movew the subject file to.

ls -l for this directory is:

 -rwxrwxrwx    1 plaything plaything        0 2005-01-25 18:31 andor
 -rwxrwxrwx    2 plaything plaything        0 2005-01-25 18:29 jh
 -rwxrwxrwx    2 plaything plaything        0 2005-01-25 18:29 X

The file 'X'  is supposed to be '-X' but the error I get is:

 cp X '-X'
 cp: invalid option -- X

What is the problem?

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