Re: IFS gotcha - potential disaster

[Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Vern Hamberg wrote:
> 
> I don't know if this has happened to anyone else, but it was a little
> messy. Somehow we got a file in the root (/) of our system, named *.* -
> perhaps as the destination of some kind of copy command.
> 
> Anyway, when clicking, in Ops Nav, on the "root" share we have, only that
> "file" showed up. Of course, if I did a WRKLNK '/*.*', all the files with a
> period somewhere in the name appeared, including this one.
> 
> In QShell, ls ??? (for 3-character names) displayed this file, as well as
> the directories with 3-letter names, such as "tmp" and "usr", and their
> subtrees - fortunately there is not much in these right now.
> 

In QSH, use the back-slash to escape the special characters.

> ls \*\.\*                                                                    
 
*.*                                                                          
 
$                                                                            
> cat \*\.\*                                                                   
 
abc                                                                          
 
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> rm  \*\.\*                                                                   
 
$                                                                            
> ls \*\.\*                                                                    
  ls: 001-2113 Error found getting information for object *.*. No such
path or 
 
directory.                                                                   
 
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