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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Naming file with special characters ? Post 302933660 by Scrutinizer on Sunday 1st of February 2015 07:10:59 AM
Old 02-01-2015
There is no chance. A forward slash is one of the few characters that cannot be used in a file name, because it is used for pathname resolution.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

po_cos_naming_shell

PO_COS_NAMING_SHELL(1)													    PO_COS_NAMING_SHELL(1)

NAME

       po_cos_naming_shell - navigate and interact with the CORBA COS Naming implementation.

SYNOPSIS

       po_cos_naming_shell [-s] [-i] [-I <IOR>] [-n]

       All the command line switches are optional. Note: if no root directory initial reference is specified (see section OPTIONS), a new one is
       created on startup.

DESCRIPTION

       po_cos_naming_shell(1) is very similar to the po_cos_naming(1) application. po_cos_naming_shell(1) can can act as standalone server that
       supports the CORBA COS Naming specification. In addition, po_cos_naming_shell(1) provides an interactive shell which can be used to query
       and manage the CORBA COS naming service.

       po_cos_naming_shell(1) is able to retrive an existing root directory reference, or it can create a new one on application startup.

       To display all available shell commands, type help on the command line.

OPTIONS

       po_cos_naming_shell(1) accepts the following command line switches:

       -s
	   Register root directory initial reference.

       -i
	   Retrieve root directory initial reference.

       -I <IOR>
	   Use object denoted by IOR as root directory.

       -n
	   Retrieve root directory by name.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Reto Buerki <reet@codelabs.ch> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

RESOURCES

       Polyorb User Manual: http://www.adacore.com/wp-content/files/auto_update/polyorb-docs/polyorb_ug.html/

SEE ALSO

       po_cos_naming(1), po_names(1).

								    05/21/2009						    PO_COS_NAMING_SHELL(1)
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