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

[Bart Silverstrim]

On Nov 19, 2004, at 3:54 AM, Josh Paetzel wrote:

> On Friday 19 November 2004 14:50, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>>
>> 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\\ ??

I think he did do that and it worked.

I was just commenting what my first instinct is to do.  A few extra 
keystrokes, but it saves my peace of mind.  I jump among too many 
different systems with their own quirks and whatnot to not be careful 
when deleting things under /etc.

how many sysadmins either A) type ls at the DOS/cmd prompt or B) 
aliased ls under DOS/cmd prompt on Windows (or I guess C would be 
installed some UNIX-like tools under Windows because they kept doing 
A)? :-)

-Bart