Any ideas on how to open a file named 1234-12-1234 in vi?
Can’t seem to get it to interpret the dashes. I could rename it, edit it and
rename it back to what it is but seems a bit daft to do it that way.
On 2/21/2013 12:23 PM, GofBorg wrote:[color=blue]
Any ideas on how to open a file named 1234-12-1234 in vi?
Can’t seem to get it to interpret the dashes. I could rename it, edit it and
rename it back to what it is but seems a bit daft to do it that way.[/color]
vi 1234\-\12\-1234
H.
Haitch wrote:
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On 2/21/2013 12:23 PM, GofBorg wrote:[color=green]
Any ideas on how to open a file named 1234-12-1234 in vi?
Can’t seem to get it to interpret the dashes. I could rename it, edit it
and rename it back to what it is but seems a bit daft to do it that way.[/color]
vi 1234\-\12\-1234
H.[/color]
Oooo I was so close…
vi 1234\-\12\-\1234
I see my mistake now. Thanks.
Haitch wrote:
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On 2/21/2013 12:23 PM, GofBorg wrote:[color=green]
Any ideas on how to open a file named 1234-12-1234 in vi?
Can’t seem to get it to interpret the dashes. I could rename it, edit it
and rename it back to what it is but seems a bit daft to do it that way.[/color]
vi 1234\-\12\-1234
H.[/color]
Hmmm…didn’t work either.
Haitch wrote:[color=blue]
[color=green]On 2/21/2013 12:23 PM, GofBorg wrote:[color=darkred]
Any ideas on how to open a file named 1234-12-1234 in vi?
Can’t seem to get it to interpret the dashes. I could rename it, edit it
and rename it back to what it is but seems a bit daft to do it that way.[/color]
vi 1234\-\12\-1234
H.[/color]
Hmmm…didn’t work either.[/color]
Normally in such a case I would just do vi 1234* but there are numerous
files beginning with 1234…too many to open/close.
I found the issue. Thanks for the help.
GofBorg wrote:
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Any ideas on how to open a file named 1234-12-1234 in vi?
Can’t seem to get it to interpret the dashes. I could rename it, edit
it and rename it back to what it is but seems a bit daft to do it
that way.[/color]
vi “1234-12-1234”
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Does this washcloth smell like chloroform?
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vi “1234-12-1234”[/color]
That works as well. Thanks.
On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:12:41 +0000, GofBorg wrote:
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vi “1234-12-1234”[/color]
That works as well. Thanks.[/color]
Opened fine here on a Linux box without quotes or escaping any characters.
Jim
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Jim Henderson, CNA6, CDE, CNI, LPIC-1, CLA10, CLP10
Novell Knowledge Partner
On 02/21/2013 12:49 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:[color=blue]
On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:12:41 +0000, GofBorg wrote:
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vi “1234-12-1234”[/color]
That works as well. Thanks.[/color]
Opened fine here on a Linux box without quotes or escaping any characters.[/color]
Yeah, there is nothing special about a hypen/dash in the filesystem. Use
tab-completion if nothing else, but my guess is that something about those
characters is non-standard, like they’re odd hyphens that you can get from
stupid word processors… like curly-quotes that show up in nice ASCII
text files and look broken because they’re non-ASCII. In that case merely
typing the hyphen directly could fail because, literally, its not the same
character. Again, tab-completion
vi 1
#then press [tab]
Good luck.
On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:47:33 +0000, ab wrote:
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On 02/21/2013 12:49 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:[color=green]
On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:12:41 +0000, GofBorg wrote:
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vi “1234-12-1234”
That works as well. Thanks.[/color]
Opened fine here on a Linux box without quotes or escaping any
characters.[/color]Yeah, there is nothing special about a hypen/dash in the filesystem.[/color]
Well, there’s one time it’s a problem - as the first character in the
filename, or (OK, two) after a space in the filename if the space isn’t
properly escaped.
Jim
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Jim Henderson, CNA6, CDE, CNI, LPIC-1, CLA10, CLP10
Novell Knowledge Partner