Re: (emacs+unix): How to have a file-name containing slashes, angle-brackets, etc?

[Xah]

On Aug 25, 1:13 pm, Nikolaj Schumacher <m...@nschum.de> wrote:
> According to Wikipedia, EXT2 (1993) supports all characters.  Older data
> is harder to find.

unix uses UFS.

if i recall correctly, the ext2 didn't become popular until mid 2000.

don't want to argue... you can read more about unix issues on my
site...

  Xah
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Nikolaj Schumacher wrote:
> Xah <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Aug 24, 5:31 am, Nikolaj Schumacher <m...@nschum.de> wrote:
> >> Xah<xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Unix is the worst, they pretty much just allow
> >> > alphanumerics and not even space. If you have anything like “,=();
> >> > \'"~&-” etc, you can expect most shell tools to erase you disk)
> >>
> >> Actually unix systems allow pretty much every character except / and the
> >> null character.
> >
> > To say that unix allows much wider chars in file names is like saying
> > mud is the best medium for sculpture.
>
> No, actually its not like that at all.  That would be an opinion, while
> I stated a (verifiable/refutable) fact.
>
> > Unix file names, for much of its history up to perhaps mid 2000s,
> > effectively just allows alphanumerics plus hyphen “-” and underscore
> > “_”.
>
> According to Wikipedia, EXT2 (1993) supports all characters.  Older data
> is harder to find.
>
> What do you mean by the vague term "effectively"?
>
> > Sure, you can use many non-alphanumeric chars besides hyphen and
> > underscore in unix, but the system is simply not designed for it.
>
> Please explain where the design falls short.
>
> > Majority of unix tools, including file name listing, will chock and
> > break if your filename contain these chars. The chocking doesn't
> > actually give you a nice error message, but silently break and often
> > resulting in unexpected and unpredicable behavior. In short, it's just
> > not designed for it.
>
> $ touch "=;\\'\"~&-“,$#\!*()” ™®©£¢≈∫µ∂ƒπ≠≤≥∞«»¡†‡°çö"
> $ ls
> =;\'"~&-“,0\!*()” ™®©£¢≈∫µ∂ƒπ≠≤≥∞«»¡†‡°çö
> $ rm "=;\\'\"~&-“,$#\!*()” ™®©£¢≈∫µ∂ƒπ≠≤≥∞«»¡†‡°çö"
>
> No problem there.
>
>
>
> regards,
> Nikolaj Schumacher