On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:14:24AM -0700, Bart Smaalders wrote:
> On 03/29/10 11:01, Matthew Ahrens wrote:
>
> >How do commands like ls and find handle printing of filenames with
> >arbitrary characters (newlines and such)?
>
> In general, badly.
>
> % touch `echo '\07'`
> % ls
> <beep>
> %
Use ls -b:
-b
--escape
Forces printing of non-printable characters to be in the
octal \ddd notation.
Octal escapes for non-printable characters seems like the way to go.
There's also GNU ls find's -print0 and GNU xargs' --nul (-0). (GNU ls
also has the -b option).
Nico
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