Renaming a flash: file with "?" as the filename

[rand.hall]

OK, in the process of doing a password recovery I somehow renamed config.text to "?"

As predicted, when I try to rename this back to config.text I get no further than

switch# rename flash:?

at which time IOS is kind enough to help me out by spilling out a directory listing of flash:

Any ideas on how to rename that file? Is there some why of disabling command line help/completion?

[Jon Marshall · Accepted solution]

rand.hall wrote:
OK, in the process of doing a password recovery I somehow renamed config.text to "?"
As predicted, when I try to rename this back to config.text I get no further than
switch# rename flash:?
at which time IOS is kind enough to help me out by spilling out a directory listing of flash:
Any ideas on how to rename that file? Is there some why of disabling command line help/completion?

Try typing ctrl+v before the question mark. crtl-v should act as a backslash which makes the ? a literal character which should stop IOS trying to interpret it as a special character.

Jon

[Leo Laohoo]

Thanks for the tip Jon (+5).

[admincarmi]

The \ was the solution. THX