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Control characters in file namesControl characters in file namesPosted Nov 25, 2010 21:48 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)In reply to: Control characters in file names by Spudd86 Parent article: Ghosts of Unix past, part 4: High-maintenance designs
In which case will the for loop not work? (Other than * not globbing files starting with a dot.)
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Control characters in file names Posted Nov 25, 2010 22:00 UTC (Thu) by Spudd86 (guest, #51683) [Link]
if there's a file that starts with - or has any sort of control character it will break.
see here: http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/filenames-in-shell.html and here: http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filename... although for some reason I remember it being much worse than that, though being correct everywhere in your script could eventually be a pain.
Control characters in file names Posted Dec 2, 2010 19:19 UTC (Thu) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link]
Are you proposing to remove hyphens from filenames too, or is this getting off-topic? :)
Control characters in file names Posted Nov 25, 2010 23:30 UTC (Thu) by cmccabe (guest, #60281) [Link]
> In which case will the for loop not work? (Other than * not globbing files
> starting with a dot.)
The for loop should be
for i in *; do cmd "./$i"; done;
In case one of the filenames begins with a dash.
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