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Anecdotally pressing ^v triggers quoting so the next character is taken verbatim. So ^v^h should have worked.
by technofiend 7y ago
Anecdotally pressing ^v triggers quoting so the next character is taken verbatim. So ^v^h should have worked.
- projektfu 7y agoThere was a ton of wizardry I didn’t know at the time
- technofiend 7y agoI hear you. The very first system Unix system I had root to ended up with two etc directories. It took a really long time to figure out I hadn't corrupted the filesystem but instead had created one directory named /etc<DEL> which was an unprintable character.
- anon9001 7y ago`mkdir -- "$(echo "-rf \u2215")"` is a fun one for someone else to anxiously rm later ;)
- technofiend 7y agoLol. The lessons I learned about ls -lq, ls -li and find -inum have stuck with me since then, though.
- kazinator 7y agoInterestingly, this feature (the LNEXT character which causes the next one to be literal) is still not in POSIX. https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/termios.h.html https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/te... The VLNEXT macro is mentioned as reserved for implementations though.