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Fun With Unix/Linux Special Characters

March 19, 2010

You may occasionally run across files in Unix/Linux that have a special character that prevents deleting or accessing the file. What to do? A semicolon (;) – Suppose you have a file named  a;b  . Try anything with this file and your shell will interpret it as: a = filename ; = end of the […]