Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

[Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au>]

Scott Ferguson wrote:
> Bigger hammer....
>
> scott@work:~/spec$ touch "*" "&"
> scott@work:~/spec$ ls -A
> *  &
> scott@work:~/spec$ rm `ls -A`
> rm: cannot remove `&': No such file or directory

The first part "*" removed both files AND any other file that might have 
been in the directory.

#  touch \* \&
#  ls -A
*  &
#  ls -A|xargs rm
#  ls


No error there, smaller hammer ;-)


And just to show that it doesn't clear other files....

#  touch \* \& a b c
#  ls
*  &  a  b  c
#  ls -A \* \&
*  &
#  ls -A \* \&|xargs rm
#  ls
a  b  c


Just for fun, to also prove that the "*" is a problem with the other 
smaller hammer attempt:

#  touch \* \& a b c
#  ls
*  &  a  b  c
#  rm $(ls -A)
rm: cannot remove `&': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `a': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `b': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `c': No such file or directory
#  ls


Do I need to tell anybody that I *like* these types of problems?    LOL

Cheers

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Kind Regards
AndrewM

Andrew McGlashan
Broadband Solutions now including VoIP