On Thursday, November 10, 2016 at 12:55:21 PM UTC-5, Fabrice Bacchella wrote: > > > > Le 10 nov. 2016 à 18:22, Rob Nelson <rnel...@gmail.com <javascript:>> a > écrit : > > > > That said, who decided a tilde to start a file name was good for > anything but a temp file??? I understand you have no choice as a user, but > someone somewhere, somewhen, chose it :( > > because in the sort algorithm from glob, ~ is one of the only the very few > characters that goes after z and it's printable, look at LC_COLLATE in > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908775/xbd/locale.html#tag_005_003_002 > .
First, a tilde in a filename is a special character in most shells-- you're setting yourself up for pain, and unexpected behavior. Secondly, on many linux systems, run-parts (the engine behind cron.hourly) will not run a script with a tilde in the name, since it will only match the regex /[A-Za-z0-9_]+/ If you're concerned about order, number them all. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/0ae89c4f-93bd-4e7b-a352-d3de38d4bb8f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
