Re: IFS gotcha - potential disaster -- MIDRANGE-L

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Vern Hamberg wrote:

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Vern
At 11:50 AM 12/15/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> This is in the category of deleting files with invalid characters in the > name.
I'm not sure what you mean by "invalid." If the character were truly
invalid, you wouldn't have been able to create the file in the first
place.
I consider a wildcard character to be invalid in an actual filename. Or at least dangerous. Am I mistaken?

Mistaken? Unfortunately, yeah. In the Unix world, there's a difference between file systems and command shells. Since there are at least a few available for both of those categories, it's unreasonable to expect all of the latter to understand the naming rules for all of the former. But the use of the backslash as an escapement character is a general convention used in much Unix-based (or at least Unix-inspired) software.

Bottom line: There's always a learning curve for anything new, especially in the Unix world. And it's not always reasonable to expect your experience in one thing to apply to another similar thing.

Cheers! Hans

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