Vincent Lefevre (HE12025-10-31): > But that's potentially insecure as this could yield arbitrary > escape sequences to the terminal, which could do bad things. That has been disabled for eons. > Note: In the OP's case, the filenames apparently code from an > untrusted source. You have information that we do not have access to. Or you are extrapolating on thin ground. Regards, -- Nicolas George