Control characters in file names [LWN.net]

Control characters in file names

Posted Dec 2, 2010 17:25 UTC (Thu) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
In reply to: Control characters in file names by michaeljt
Parent article: Ghosts of Unix past, part 4: High-maintenance designs

I don't know anyone using Python as their login shell. That would be a pretty terrible idea IMHO. On the other hand shell does make it easy to handle filenames wrong (just leave out some quotes and it will still seem to work) so python scripts are more likely to do a good job. That's not really going to fix the problem though, no matter how popular Python becomes for scripting compared to shell.

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Control characters in file names

Posted Dec 2, 2010 17:40 UTC (Thu) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]

> I don't know anyone using Python as their login shell.

I was assuming that the biggest problem with filenames and shell script came from actual well-known script files that got exploited, not stuff typed in at the command line. I'm sure that can be a problem too of course.