From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 16 23:25:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA24688 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 23:25:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA24681 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 23:25:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id PAA17279; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 15:54:09 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980717155409.P566@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 15:54:09 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Sue Blake , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: +filenames References: <19980717154959.16761@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19980717154959.16761@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 03:49:59PM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 17 July 1998 at 15:49:59 +1000, Sue Blake wrote: > What's the deal with filenames that start with "+" like the ones found > inside packages? Nothing special. It's just a kind of name that isn't used very often. > I can read them with cat or more, but not less. Sure you can. You just need to recall that less considers strings starting with + as options, so it gets confused. Use one of the usual workarounds. For example, to look at +CONTENTS with less, refer to the file as ./+CONTENTS. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message