On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 01:51:40PM -0500, Aubin Paul wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:41:27PM -0600, Krister Lagerstrom wrote: > > Sure, it *can* go wrong, but how likely is that? Do you have any > > specific examples that people actually might have problems with? I can't > > recall seeing any files in unix with backslashes. > > Escaped spaces. > > i.e. > > a file on my system like this: "/My\ Music/My Song - My Artist.mp3" > would be: /My\ Music/My\ Song\ -\ My\ Artist.mp3 > > Aubin
well you have to escape filenames to use them within a shell, they are not escaped in the filesystem :) anyway you can create a file with backslashes with a simple $ touch \\file or $ touch "\file" so i think doing on the fly conversion could be error prone. -- Giuseppe Ciotta gpg key id: 0x62C77413 (string 72 101 108 108 111)
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