can't get rid of this file with trailing backslash?

[Josh Paetzel]

On Friday 19 November 2004 14:50, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> On Nov 19, 2004, at 9:09 AM, Hexren wrote:
> > AF> I was editing my named.conf and somehow saved the file
> > AF> with a trailing backslash and I can't get rid of it.
> >
> > AF> -rw-r--r--   1 root  bind    18314 Nov 18 11:35 named.conf
> > AF> -rw-r--r--   1 root  bind    18314 Nov 18 11:07
> > named.conf.save.11-18
> > AF> -rw-r--r--   1 root  bind    17389 Nov 18 10:58 named.conf\
> > AF> -rw-r--r--   1 bind  bind     2602 May 25 17:28 named.root
> >
> > AF> I was using nano and have no clue how I did it.
> > AF> If I rm named.conf\ it removes the named.conf.
> >
> > AF> So how do I get rid of named.conf\  ?
> >
> > AF> Andy
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > only shooting in the blue here but have you tried rm
> > 'named.conf\' so as to instruct the sheel to ignore any special
> > chars it sees. Or rm named.conf\\ (I seem to recall that you the
> > backslash is the escape sequenze for the bash so escaping a
> > backslash should lead to a literal backslash. *guessing*
>
> My first instinct would be
> cp named.conf backupnamed.conf
> rm named.con*
> mv backupnamed.conf named.conf
>
> :-)
>
> I'm too paranoid that I know what *should* work wouldn't or would
> still end up deleting the original file I wanted, so I'd have to
> make a backup of the file and do it that way rather than play with
> escapes and quotes.

Cant' you escape the \ with a \? 
rm named.conf\\ ??


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Thanks,

Josh Paetzel