On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:20:16 -0800 (PST), Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Mikey wrote: > > > 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 > > You can not use the / (slash) because it means directory. Actually, that's not quite true. If I $ cd /home/ric The '/' (forward slash) character is not part of the names for either home or ric. The file system uses it as a delimiter to separate one level of the file system from another. It's far more complicated than that, but that's a boiled-down explanation. Because the '/' character is only a delimiter and not a part of the file system itself, it's a legal character in filenames. For some reason, Bash is auto-escaping things in his command line. Hmm. This is curious. Bash is holding our hands far more than I remember from way, way back when I first played with Unix and learned about shell stuff. Does a more modern-day Linux shell guru have an answer? -- Ric Fischer --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss