Timothy G Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The other common bad character I see often is # from emacs backup (as > oppposed to auto-save) files. > > I'd actually check for files that only use the [a-zA-Z0-9_-.] symbol set > (though apparently you also disallow .; is this to avoid hidden files? In > that case, I'd just check for . at the start of the filename);
. is disallowed because of dpkg; it's the most common way in Debian to avoid parsing foo.dpkg-dist or foo.dpkg-new files. > I think this is what run-parts does, and thus probably what most users > will expect from .d/ directories. Indeed, run-parts restricts to [a-zA-Z0-9_-]. Okay, I'll look at doing the same thing. Thanks! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
