Incoming from Sam Watkins: > 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 /
True. That doesn't include the characters that are STUPID to use in a Unix filename, such as &, |, *, -, ~, ... There are ways to handle them, yes. Of course, it's smarter not to use them. Too bad you can't outlaw foolishness. > cp $A $B > > instead of: > > cp "$A" "$B" Hacks like that are only necessary when fools are using foolish filenames. Or when you're interacting with Windows; a foolish OS. I doubt double quotes around the most egregiously wrong characters will stop them from being used incorrectly. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Please don't Cc: me. - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
