On 2015-10-23, "Ted Unangst" <t...@tedunangst.com> wrote: >> To what degree should tools like ls protect terminals from escape codes? > > I think this is beyond the scope of what ls should care about. du doesn't have > such a check. Does the shell perform a check before tab completing?
Our ksh, bash, and tcsh all escape unprintable characters. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de