At 12:51 PM +0200 6/8/00, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
>On 8/06, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
>| -On [20000608 03:12], Kris Kennaway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>| >Instead of using only alphabetic characters, the patch uses the following
>| >character set:
>| >
>| >0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz@#%^-_=+:,.~
>| >
>| > which is not believed to cause any problems with shells.
>|
>| Some shells parse # as a deletion character if memory serves me right.
>| I think I noticed this behaviour when I started using zsh a few weeks
>| ago after ksh.
>
>Also ^ is used for substitutions in many shells (as in ^faulty^ok).
I believe bash requires some kind of whitespace character (blank,
tab, newline) in front of the '#' before it will treat it as the
comment character. I am not sure about other shells (people who
use other shells might want to check).
Similarly, I believe '^' is used for substitutions ONLY if it is
the first character in the line. Ie, 'echo hello^to^you' does
not do any substitution on the previous line.
Since we know these characters are only being used in a filename,
and NOT as the first character of a filename, then we should not
have trouble using them.
I must admit I am not as comfortable using '+=,', and I think one
of '@' or ':' should go, just in case the file is used in some
context that reads blah@blah:blah as userid@hostname:fname
I would probably drop the '@', but if there is some other reason
to drop ':' then the '@' could probably stay.
At the same time, I do like to see the set expanded as much as
possible, without causing any problems.
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