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From: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
Subject: Re: RFC: Illegal Characters in File Names
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 23:37:25 +0200
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On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 22:27:53 +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 04:44:08PM -0400, Guy wrote:
> > I am not talking about lusers creating applications!  Just empty files =
with
> > very controlled filenames.  The file names would contain the control
> > characters to affect the terminal when anyone (including root) issued t=
he
> > "ll" command in /tmp.
>=20
> Then your ls is broken.  Mine displays them:
>=20
> $ touch ^D
> $ ls -l
> -rw-r--r--    1 willy    willy           0 Jul 20 17:26 ?
>=20
> See the -N, -q, -b options to ls.  You're not the first person to think
> about this problem.

Try
ls -l | cat
;-)

Ls is clever. When it sees tty, it avoids control chars....

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