Re: OT: Need help from bash experts... bad filename chars -- oopss

hi ya alan yuppers... ooppss... am smoking funny stuff again... ( just woke up ) meant its a pain to save/restore those whacky names on *nix from bash/perl and tar|find vs find|tar makes difference too and win98 wont allow mkdir "foo/tmp" nor "foo\0tmp" as their dirnames at least n

Re: OT: Need help from bash experts... bad filename chars

Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > and you cannot save/create/restore these files on *nix > -- you'd need some kind of filename mapping Incorrect. You could create every single one of your examples on Unix. The only characters you can't use on Unix are / and \0. You may have to try a

Re: OT: Need help from bash experts... bad filename chars

hi romuald the only whacky filenames/directories i was able to create (mkdir) on win98 was... foo tmp space foo'tmp apostrophe foo`tmp back-tick foo$sale foo!tmp foo#tmp [EMAIL PROTECTED] foo%tmp foo^tmp foo(tmp foo)tmp foo[tmp foo]tmp and i think you can play tricks with backspace'd name