On 08/27/2014 12:05 AM, Dirk Gently wrote:
ah.. yes, those are odd characters, but certainly not nulls.
If you come across one of those again, try this:
ls | od -c
and you will see the bizarro characters that got embedded in your file name.
The man page for ls mentions -b, --escape print C-style escapes for nongraphic characters Does that work for characters that are not in the set you are using and get displayed as black squares? I do know from experience that it works for embedded nulls Also -N, --literal print raw entry names (don't treat e.g. control characters specially) and --show-control-chars show non graphic characters as-is (default unless program is 'ls' and output is a terminal) -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML Mail / \ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org