On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 11:54:17AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > watch out for dumb file anems like: > office birthday list > bob's projections > 'any other "dumb" file names' allowed in windoz, that is not > allowed in *nix
I think the only characters not allowed in a unix filename are NUL (0) and / You can have newlines in your filenames if you like. The only problem with spaces and quotes in filenames is that some incorrect shell scripts can't handle spaces and quotes, because people write things like: cp $A $B instead of: cp "$A" "$B" also programs like xargs will stuff up unless you use the -0 option. Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
