[cs631apue] ls -q and w

[Jason Ajmo]

You can't type the special characters. They're interpreted as plain
characters. You need to insert the special character codes themselves.

i.e. for \t, hit the tab button on your keyboard.

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 4:54 PM Jeevanandha Ramanathan <jramana1 at stevens.edu>
wrote:

> I am trying to create a file with special characters, using
>
> touch 'foo\n'  'foo\t'  'foo?'
>
> but listing the files using ls command, displays
>
> foo\n foo\t foo?.
>
> I expect it to be
>
> foo? foo? foo?
>
> Am I missing something here?
>
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> Kind regards,
> Jeeva
>
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> Stevens Institute of technology
> CS Graduate Student
> email: jramana1 at stevens.edu
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