How to view this filename?

[Vijaya Kumar_3]

Hi all,

How can I view a filename which is having some special characters?

2156 14 -rwxr-xr-x 1 42637 30765 6636 Dec 15 2003

Is there any option that will print the special characters of filenames (with ls command)...

Thanks
Vijay

[Devender Khatana]

Hi Vijay,

There is no such option. Atleast one of the characters in the file name should be printable, then using wild characters you can print that file name. For ex. your file name is null7null then using "ls -l *7*" you can print that file using ls command which can list other files as well allthough.

But be careful while removing these file. Use shell history to view previous command & when your ls command shows exactly the desired file name then repeat last command and replace ls with rm -i to interactively remove such files otherwise wild characters can cause disasterous results.

HTH,
Devender

[Kasper Hedensted · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You can use ls with the option "-b" to list nonprinting characters in octal notation.

Cheers,

[Joseph Loo]

hi,

have u try this:

# find / -name '* *' -print

regards.

[Indira Aramandla]

Hi,

You can use ls -i. This will print the inode number and the file name.

Then you can use find with inum option to find the file od that particular inore number and more the file.

eg :-
ls -i gave the inode number of the file as

12067 NULL>>

find . -inum 12067 -exec more {} \;

IA

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,

you can also access the file from a graphics console

regards
yogeeraj

[Muthukumar_5]

With ls command,

-b, --escape
print octal escapes for nongraphic characters

ls -b or ls --escape

hth.

[Vijaya Kumar_3]

Thanks..