phillips@fozzie.nrl.navy.mil (Lee Phillips) (06/26/91)
I ftp'd to a Macintosh running some version of NCSA Telnet, and, after
going to the directory of interest, said "dir". I got a list of
files, including one with a trailing asterisk. I got the file, and
there it was in my directory on the Sun running SunOs Unix Something.
However, it was zero length. I tried to delete it with rm, using
every combination of quoting and escaping and globbing that I knew,
and every time I got the reply: HellFile* not found. Saying "ls -q"
showed the entry "HellFile?". I finally ftp'd to myself on the Sun and
issued a delete command from there, and it worked! Going to the Mac
Finder I saw that the name was really HellFile[non-ascii-character].
Now here is the question: Can a lowly user unlink a file that can not
be mentioned by name? I couldn't get anywhere with clri. And how
does one deal, with ftp, with files on Macs whose names have non-ascii
characters in them?
--
Lee Phillips
phillips@fozzie.nrl.navy.mil
phillips@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
phillips@lcp.nrl.navy.miltchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) (06/26/91)
From the keyboard of phillips@fozzie.nrl.navy.mil (Lee Phillips): :Now here is the question: Can a lowly user unlink a file that can not :be mentioned by name? I couldn't get anywhere with clri. And how :does one deal, with ftp, with files on Macs whose names have non-ascii :characters in them? This is question #2 of the comp.unix.questions FAQ. I'll be glad to mail you a copy if you don't have it. Perhaps someone else could post an ftp address that hosts it. --tom -- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist "So much mail, so little time."
rhartman@thestepchild.sgi.com (Robert Hartman) (06/27/91)
In article <DrPHILLIPS.91Jun25170624@fozzie.nrl.navy.mil> phillips@fozzie.nrl.navy.mil (Lee Phillips) writes: >I ftp'd to a Macintosh ... I got a list of >files, including one with a trailing asterisk. > ... I tried to delete it with rm, using >every combination of quoting and escaping and globbing that I knew ... In csh, say: set noglob ; rm Hellfile* ; unset noglob -r
phillips@fozzie.nrl.navy.mil (Lee Phillips) (06/27/91)
In article <1991Jun25.224223.25158@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
This is question #2 of the comp.unix.questions FAQ. [....]
Half of it is. I am guilty. This experience goaded me into finally
retrieving those FAQ files and reading them. They are most
interesting.
The second part of the question remains: How do I deal with funny
characters in Mac filenames through FTP? How about two files whose
names differ only by a non-ascii character? Before replying with a
facile suggestion involving mget, try it.
--
Lee Phillips
phillips@fozzie.nrl.navy.mil
phillips@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
phillips@lcp.nrl.navy.mil