Re: writing special characters

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Mikey wrote:

> 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.

You can not use the / (slash) because it means directory.

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

Try:

cp -- X -X

Or:

cp X ./-X


Jeremy C. Reed

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