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Auteur: Hendrik Boom
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] Review of documentation needed

On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 04:16:26PM +0000, g4sra via Dng wrote:
> <--snip-->
> > Net question: how to get a '/' in a file name instead of having it
> > interpreted as a separator in a path.
> >
>
> > I needed it once long ago when using a file system that had been built
> > on another OS.
> >
>
> > I resorted to using a hexadecimal editor on the raw disk to get rid of
> > the thing.
> Been there, done that.
> Now my time is worth more than the effort to go down that road.
>
> I opt to live dangerously..(shove an '-r' in there too if you feel like it)
>
> $ rm -i .* *
>
> this way you can delete illegitimate entries without hacking the filesystem.
>


I've done that to files I didn't want with some very strange unicode in
their names.
But it's not a solution if you actually want to see the contents of the
file.

-- hendrik