On 10/24/07, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Since it's primarily Windows that should have this problem (AFAICR most
> *NIXs allow anything other than "/" in a file name) it should be easy
> enough to find a list of prohibited chars.
in *NIX filenames with spaces are particularly tedious... I
personally would forbid spaces in filenames en-toto as they tend to
make scripts fail...
[id-est:~/tt] lego% echo a b > a\ b
[id-est:~/tt] lego% echo c d > c\ d
[id-est:~/tt] lego% head *
==> a b <==
a b
==> c d <==
c d
[id-est:~/tt] lego% find . -type f
./a b
./c d
[id-est:~/tt] lego% grep a `find . -type f`
grep: ./a: No such file or directory
grep: b: No such file or directory
grep: ./c: No such file or directory
grep: d: No such file or directory
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