On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 07:11:56PM +0000, dutchman_mn at charter.net wrote:
> Question:  How do you delete a directory that starts with ${
> 
> I have a number of directories like ${foo}
> 
> When I try, it a bad substitution error out of bash.

If you're interactive, how about rm ${f[tab]?  My experience is that
the tab auto-completion in bash appropriately escapes any weird file
or directory names.

-- 
Scott Raun
sraun at fireopal.org

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