Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> writes: > On 25/06/11 10:16, lee wrote: >> Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> I don't think the "no white spaces" and "no accented characters" >>> "rule" is valid in the 21st century. But if some one can put up an >>> authoritative, and recent, reason I'll reconsider. >> >> Since (unfortunately) there isn't anything preventing users from >> creating files with names that contain special characters or spaces, you >> could say that there isn't such a rule anymore. > > There is...
Where? :) >> Nonetheless I advise against it, very un-authoritatively of course, >> because it can be troublesome to create files with special characters or >> spaces in their names. >> >> To give a silly example, a file named "-rf *" or "rm -rf *" > > I defy you to create a file with those name ;-p > NOTE: I've tried. No point in it just being an untested opinion. You can just rename a file with: # mv 1307474391 "rm -rf *" ,---- | lee@yun:~/tmp/naming$ ls -la | insgesamt 52 | drwxr-xr-x 2 lee lee 4096 25. Jun 15:48 . | drwx------ 12 lee lee 32768 25. Jun 15:48 .. | -rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee 116 9. Jun 16:35 -rf | -rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee 94 7. Jun 21:19 rm -rf * | -rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee 94 7. Jun 21:17 rm -rf \* | -rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee 94 7. Jun 21:16 rm -rf 1307474137 | lee@yun:~/tmp/naming$ `---- I haven't tried touch, it'll probably work the same. A nice application might be to provide "rm -rf *" as a filename for an attachment to an email? Now how to remove these files gives me something to think about very carefully ... :( >> could turn >> out to be disastrous. Using other special characters, for example ä, ü, >> ö, and ß, can give you trouble when locale settings change and may have >> effects that I'm even not aware of. >> >> It's only common sense not to create file names that are likely to yield >> unexpected results. >> > > Agreed - but *as it's not possible* my agreement is worthless. It also > belies the point of UTF. See above, there's no problem in creating files named "rm -rf *". That makes me think that system administrators should have a way of specifying for each file system and globally which characters they allow in file names and which ones not. Should I send a feature request on the kernel package? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ipru2eue....@yun.yagibdah.de
