"Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Jan Schaumann <jschauma%netmeister.org@localhost> writes:
> > Running 'ls -b "foo bar"' yields:
> >
> > On Lunix: foo\ bar
> > On IRIX: foo\0x4bar
> > On Solaris: foo bar
> > On NetBSD: foo bar
>
> 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
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