On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Halim Issa <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Running findutils 4.4.0 on a Slackware-based system, I'm having a few UTF-8 > related challenges with find together with filenames with international > characters such as the Scandinavian æ ø and å. > Same problem seems to exist in previous versions of findutils. > > lets say I do a #touch "file with ÆØÅ";touch "file with æøå";touch "file > without any trouble" and then try to find these with find. > > What works fine: > #find . -name "*file*" -print > ./file without any trouble > ./file with ÆØÅ > ./file with æøå > > (so this works just fine!) > > What does NOT seem to work (or where I messed up): > #find . -name "*file*" -ls > 1384688 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 yo users 0 Dec 17 19:03 ./file\ > without\ any\ trouble > 1384675 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 yo users 0 Dec 17 19:03 ./file\ > with\ \303\206\303\230\303\205 > 1384687 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 yo users 0 Dec 17 19:03 ./file\ > with\ \303\246\303\270\303\245 > > What happened with unicode here?
The historic behaviour of -ls is to escape such characters. See "Unusual Characters in File Names" in the info documentation for find. > > Have I completely missed something, either at compile time or replacing -print > with -ls supposed to work like this? > > Any insight would be greatly appreciated - thanks in advance! > > >
