<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">I am trying to create a file with special characters, using </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="garamond, serif">touch &#39;foo\n&#39;  &#39;foo\t&#39;  &#39;foo?&#39; </font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">but listing the files using ls command, displays </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="garamond, serif">foo\n foo\t foo?.</font> </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I expect it to be </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="garamond, serif">foo? foo? foo?</font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="garamond, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Am I missing something here?</font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#134f5c">Thank you.</font><div><font color="#134f5c"><br></font></div><div><font color="#134f5c">Kind regards,</font></div><div><font color="#134f5c">Jeeva</font></div><div><font color="#0c343d"><br></font></div><div><font color="#444444">----------------------------------------------------</font></div><div><font color="#444444">Jeevanandha Ramanathan</font></div><div><font size="1" color="#444444">Stevens Institute of technology<br></font></div><div><font color="#444444"><font size="1">CS Graduate Student</font></font></div><div><font color="#444444">email: <a href="mailto:jramana1@stevens.edu" target="_blank">jramana1@stevens.edu</a></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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