From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: RFC: Illegal Characters in File Names Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 22:40:57 +0100 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040720214057.GD2820@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20040720181006.GG12308@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <200407202044.i6KKi8318014@watkins-home.com> <20040720212753.GC2820@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040720213725.GP3227@vagabond> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Matthew Wilcox , Guy , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, 'Bryan Henderson' , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, "'Joseph D. Wagner'" Return-path: Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:58342 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266310AbUGTVk6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:40:58 -0400 To: Jan Hudec Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040720213725.GP3227@vagabond> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 11:37:25PM +0200, Jan Hudec wrote: > > 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.... Sure. But that's not really relevant, is it? If you say to CERT "Linux sucks because you could type ls | cat and it'll fuck up your terminal", they'll laugh at you. -- "Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain