Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ucsd!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!hpda!hpcupt1!hpcuhb!hpindda!vandys From: vandys@hpindda.HP.COM (Andy Valencia) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Kernel Hacks & Weird Filenames Message-ID: <4470004@hpindda.HP.COM> Date: 11 May 88 15:36:40 GMT References: <13041@brl-adm.ARPA> Organization: HP Technical Networks, Cupertino, Calif. Lines: 20 / hpindda:comp.unix.wizards / paul@csnz.nz (Paul Gillingwater) / 9:36 am May 10, 1988 / >Does that mean that a naive user can make a file with a>in the name? e.g. "John Doe" or "Job Cost" or other equally >"intuitively correct" but WRONG names...:-) Yes, it does: Script started on Wed May 11 08:34:56 1988 $ cat > "John Doe" This is stuff on J.D. $ cat "John Doe" This is stuff on J.D. $ rm "John Doe" $ exit script done on Wed May 11 08:35:26 1988 You DO need the quotes, but saying it's WRONG is misleading; I've used such file names in many applications to good effect. Andy Valencia vandys%hpindda.UUCP@hplabs.hp.com