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Date:      04 Oct 2001 19:52:36 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Michael Sinz <msinz@wgate.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ALT-<sp> (Was: how to make 'for' understand two words as a singleargumen)
Message-ID:  <xzp1ykjcmxn.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <7ffffcf203a07007d1@[192.168.1.4]>
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Michael Sinz <msinz@wgate.com> writes:
> BTW - How does your system represent a file with 0xA0 in it?  An ls on
> FreeBSD 4.4-Stable seems to show it as:
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 msinz  msinz   0 Oct  3 12:00 foo?bar
> 
> Interesting - not what I would have expected but I think "non-printables"
> are replaced by the "?" when ls runs.
> 
> Even more interesting is this:
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 msinz  msinz   0 Oct  3 12:00 foo?bar
> -rw-r--r--  1 msinz  msinz   1 Oct  3 12:05 foo?bar
> 
> (one has a linefeed in the name and one has a non-breaking space in the name)

This is only "interesting" (in the sense in which you seem to use the
word) to someone who has not read the ls(1) manual page, and does not
know of the -q and -B options...

DES
-- 
Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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