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Name: marion
Date: September 29, 2005 at 04:13:01 Pacific
Subject: Character substitution
OS: AIX 5.2
CPU/Ram: don't know

Comment:

Hi all.
I have to put the full path of a file into its name.
The problem is that unix won't accept the character "/" in the filename, so I have to substitute it with something else.
How can I do it via scripting?
I would be very grateful for any help!!
Thanks a lot,
Marion

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Response Number 1

Name: nails
Date: September 29, 2005 at 07:27:36 Pacific
Subject: Character substitution

Reply: (edit)

I don't understand your comment "that unix won't accept the character '/'". Typically, you escape the / meaning \/ to take away the special meaning.

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Response Number 2

Name: marion
Date: September 30, 2005 at 01:44:40 Pacific
Subject: Character substitution

Reply: (edit)

I've already tried. It doesn't work.
For example:
$ touch \/me
touch: 0652-046 Cannot create /me.
Any other ideas?
Thanks very much!!
Marion

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Response Number 3

Name: Jim Boothe
Date: September 30, 2005 at 06:19:06 Pacific
Subject: Character substitution

Reply: (edit)

touch /me is trying to create a file in the root directory. Maybe you do not have write permissions in the root directory?
The forward slash does not need to be escaped when dealing with path and file names.

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