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Re: tramp (2.2.6-24.3); Remote files containing '$' cannot be opened
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Michael Albinus |
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Re: tramp (2.2.6-24.3); Remote files containing '$' cannot be opened |
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Tue, 04 Mar 2014 22:39:08 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Liam Bowen <address@hidden> writes:
Hi Liam,
> I have encountered a bug in which remote files containing '$'
> fail to open. Tramp says, "File exists, but cannot be read".
> Before anyone asks, "why would you have a dollar sign in a filename?!"
> it is a convention with Oracle databases to use that character in
> object definitions, and we script out each object with an epynonymous
> file.
Have you doubled the "$"? In Emacs, if you want to open ".../file$1",
you must type in the minibuffer ".../file$$1". Otherwise, the word after
the "$" is regarded as environment variable, and it will be expanded.
See (info "(emacs)File Names")
Best regards, Michael.