Gabriel Barazer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 04/29/2008 4:47:53 PM +0200, Bo Borgerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Pádraig Brady wrote: >>> tr '+/' '._' => hidden files >>> tr '+/' '-_' => awkward option clashes >>> tr '/' '_' => not POSIX portable > > AFAIK, POSIX filenames allow any character except the slash character and > the null byte.
That is actually a Unix property. For a portable POSIX file name the alphabet is much more restricted: [A-Za-z0-9_.-], without leading hyphen. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
