Help with yum

[Harvey Ussery]

nathan r. hruby wrote:

>On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Harvey Ussery wrote:
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>>emacs, I somehow screwed up & created a file   #err.c#  (got interrupted 
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>rm \#err.c\#
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># is the comment character in most shells, so things after it tend to get 
>ignored.  The \ typically escapes the "special meaning" out of 
>the character following it, thus the syntax above.
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>HTH,
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>-n
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Thanks very much, Nathan. I had of course worked with escaping 
characters in other contexts, but it didn't occur to me that it would 
work the trick here. I appreciate not only the help here but the lesson. 
 Thanks.    --Harvey

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