On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 03:07:24PM +0100, James Youngman wrote: > On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 12:02:59PM +0000, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > > Afaict dumping non printable characters to the terminal usually is not > > wanted > > and should not be default. > > > > Posix says: > > -print > > The primary shall always evaluate as true; it shall cause > > the current pathname to be written to standard output. > > > > so by filtering out these characters (e.g by replacing them with > > questionmarks or their escapecodes) we would not be following posix to the > > letter. But do you want to be _that_ strict? > > I'm tempted to adopt the same approach as "ls" does in coreutils, > which is to print a "?" for nongraphic characters if stdout is a tty.
GNU ls also have --hide-control-chars/--show-control-chars options for explicit control. Do you plan to introduce these options in find, too? -- ldv
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