Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 15:54:09 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: +filenames Message-ID: <19980717155409.P566@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19980717154959.16761@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 03:49:59PM %2B1000 References: <19980717154959.16761@welearn.com.au>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19980717155409.P566>