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Re: Question about "Depends: bash"



Dwayne C. Litzenberger dijo [Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 11:30:40PM -0600]:
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 07:42:14PM +0000, Oleg Verych wrote:
> >Guys. Once more. Spaces is your problem, not my.
> 
> In Unix, every byte except NUL and / (including CR, LF, quotes, and UTF-8 
> characters) can be used in a filename, and every string of those bytes 
> except "." and ".." is a perfectly valid, legal filename.
> 
> Treating some legal filenames differently than others is a bug.  Period.

Actually, '.' and '..' are completely valid and legal filenames, and
quite popular, in fact. Of course, they have a very special meaning,
you should not just touch them... But they are as valid as any other. 

Greetings,

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