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"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
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> Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org> writes:

> > Running 'ls -b "foo bar"' yields:
> >
> > On Lunix:   foo\ bar
> > On IRIX:    foo\0x4bar
> > On Solaris: foo bar
> > On NetBSD:  foo bar
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> I think shockingly, the Linux behavior seems most in accord with what
> one would expect -b to do (and with what is most useful to the user.)

Actually, if the manual page that '-b' "prints octal escapes for
nongraphic characters", then using "\ " for a space doesn't seem
quite correct.

-Jan

--=20
The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
	-- John Gilmore

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