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I realize that. The example he used was a collection of c files, leading me to believe he was showing a personal collection of source as an example, wrongly or
by yan 17y ago
I realize that. The example he used was a collection of c files, leading me to believe he was showing a personal collection of source as an example, wrongly or rightly. And I realize you aren't going to be creating files with newlines in them (or leading dashes, or many dots, etc), but once you get into a territory of someone being able to do that, and you're not competing in a CTF, I'd say there are larger issues to deal with.
- basugasubaku 17y agoI can do no better than quote Randal himself again, from the same thread: "Well, there was a very embarassing error for Apple a few years ago for the 10.3 to 10.4 upgrade as I recall. Apparently, if you had a space in your home disk name, all sorts of files got deleted. So, the moral is, no matter how rare you think something is, that's NO EXCUSE for not doing the right thing for all possible characters." http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.shell/msg/504a75cc7d87e16c http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.shell/msg/504a75cc7... http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.shell/msg/0385fc2d1dbf745d http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.shell/msg/0385fc2d1...
- nailer 17y agoSpaces in names are not rare - space is part of natural language, a filename or volume name in considered to be a single line label.