find omits dollar signs in filenames

2024-07-21 Thread Olf
Hi, the GNU find utility does not output dollar signs embedded in filenames, i.e. it emits non-matching filenames! I am pretty sure that this in not the intended behaviour. I came across this when creating a command line which properly handles filenames with unusual characters, for which I c

Re: find omits dollar signs in filenames was wrong

2024-07-21 Thread Olf
Oh sorry, that was BS: It is "ls -q" which inserts dollar signs in front of quoted formatting characters. -- Cheers, Olf On 21 July 2024 19:16:11 CEST, Olf wrote: >Hi, > >the GNU find utility does not output dollar signs embedded in >filenames, i.e. it emits non-matching filenames! I am pre