{"id":41117,"date":"2021-03-07T16:35:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T16:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=41117"},"modified":"2021-03-07T16:35:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T16:35:28","slug":"liunix-other-characters-in-file-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/liunix-other-characters-in-file-names\/","title":{"rendered":"[Li|U]nix: &#8220;other&#8221; characters in file names"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about Unix: the tutor mentions accessing a file name that has non-word characters.<\/h2>\n<p>Sometimes you&#8217;ll look in a directory and you might see a file name such as <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:monospace\">this(file).txt<\/p>\n<p>Yet, if you try to refer to that file in a command, you might be told that the ( is an unexpected character.<\/p>\n<p>However, you can refer to it using<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:monospace\">this\\(file\\).txt<\/p>\n<p>At least, that seems to work for me.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QrkH-xwh1fI&#038;list=PLCAF7D691FFA25555&#038;index=15\">Linux Leech (YouTube)<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about Unix: the tutor mentions accessing a file name that has non-word characters. Sometimes you&#8217;ll look in a directory and you might see a file name such as this(file).txt Yet, if you try to refer to that file in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/liunix-other-characters-in-file-names\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[Li|U]nix: &#8220;other&#8221; characters in file names<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[637],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41120,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41117\/revisions\/41120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}