Re: Opening files that start with %

[Rob Brown-Bayliss <rob zoism org>]

On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 03:56, Shane OConnor - Sun Ireland wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It's just been noticed that any file that starts with the '%' character will not 
> open in nautilus, gedit or netscape. As all the gconf xml files start with the 
> '%' character I was wondering if this was a deliberate thing? Currently the only 
> way to view any file that begins with '%' is via vi.

Ha, Once not long ago I accidentaly created a file called -somefile   

Tried to rm -somefile and got an "error invalid option" ;o)

I know this dosent help but hey, share and share alike huh?