> On 2015-06-22 Norman Ramsey <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Package: findutils
> > Version: 4.4.2-9+b1
> > Severity: normal
>
> > Dear Maintainer,
>
> > What led up to the situation is a faulty library resulted in some file
> > names that had DEL and other ugly characters embedded. In trying to
> > track down these files, I used find(1), but didn't find anything.
> > Very surprising.
>
> > Further investigation reveals that find(1) is failing to match pattern
> > '*l_y_i_n*' when the shell does:
>
> > : nr@homedog 12294 ; find . -name '*l_y_i_n*'
> > : nr@homedog 12295 ; echo *l_y_i_n*
> > ��F_l_y_i_n_g_ _C_o_l_o_r_s
> > : nr@homedog 12296 ; echo *l_y_i_n* | od -a
> > 0000000 del ~ F _ l _ y _ i _ n _ g _ sp _
> > 0000020 C _ o _ l _ o _ r _ s nl
> > 0000034
> [...]
>
> Hello,
>
> I am sorry, but this specific example works for me:
I apologize---I sent you a bad bug report.
I had not realized that 'od -a' ignores the high bit.
Please forgive me.
I can reproduce the issue by setting the first byte of
the filename to \xFF rather than \x7F.
Norman
: nr@homedog 10282 ; touch "`printf '\xFF~F_l_y_i_n_g_
Colors
'`"
: nr@homedog 10283 ; ls -l
total 0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nr nr 0 Dec 29 15:07 ?~F_l_y_i_n_g_?Colors
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nr nr 0 Dec 29 15:02 ?~F_l_y_i_n_g_? > _C_o_l_o_r_s
: nr@homedog 10284 ; find . -name '*l_y_i*'
./?~F_l_y_i_n_g_? > _C_o_l_o_r_s
: nr@homedog 10285 ; find . -name '*l_y_i*' | od -a -t x1
0000000 . / del ~ F _ l _ y _ i _ n _ g _
2e 2f 7f 7e 46 5f 6c 5f 79 5f 69 5f 6e 5f 67 5f
0000020 nl sp > sp _ C _ o _ l _ o _ r _ s
0a 20 3e 20 5f 43 5f 6f 5f 6c 5f 6f 5f 72 5f 73
0000040 nl
0a
0000041
: nr@homedog 10287 ; for i in *; do echo "$i" | od -a -t x1; done
0000000 del ~ F _ l _ y _ i _ n _ g _ nl C
ff 7e 46 5f 6c 5f 79 5f 69 5f 6e 5f 67 5f 0a 43
0000020 o l o r s nl
6f 6c 6f 72 73 0a
0000026
0000000 del ~ F _ l _ y _ i _ n _ g _ nl sp
7f 7e 46 5f 6c 5f 79 5f 69 5f 6e 5f 67 5f 0a 20
0000020 > sp _ C _ o _ l _ o _ r _ s nl
3e 20 5f 43 5f 6f 5f 6c 5f 6f 5f 72 5f 73 0a
0000037
