Re: Has a Debian developer ever unintentionally wiped out user files like Apple?

[Sebastian Rittau <srittau@jroger.in-berlin.de>]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 02:37:52PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Sebastian Rittau wrote:

> > So_what_Live_with_it_Spaces_in_filenames_are_not_only_valid_but_
> > generally_a_Good_Thing_Why_should_I_cripple_my_filenames_by_not_using_
> > them.txt
> 
> Hmm.  filename with embedded new lines.  Tricky, but doable, in shell.

srittau@jroger:~$ touch
"So_what_Live_with_it_Spaces_in_filenames_are_not_only_valid_but_
> generally_a_Good_Thing_Why_should_I_cripple_my_filenames_by_not_using_
> them.txt"
srittau@jroger:~$ ls So*
So_what_Live_with_it_Spaces_in_filenames_are_not_only_valid_but_?generally_a_Good_Thing_Why_should_I_cripple_my_filenames_by_not_using_?them.txt
srittau@jroger:~$ 

Not *that* hard.

 - Sebastian