On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:20:16 -0800 (PST), Jeremy C. Reed
<
reed@reedmedia.net> 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
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