Kernel Hacks & Weird Filenames (should be: shell restrictions)

[Chuck Karish]

In article <339 at conexch.UUCP> root at conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera) writes:
>I must not understand the problem here, because this all looks very simple
>to me.  
>
>First, SCO Xenix's ls command supports the -b option which forces printing of
>non-graphic characters in file names to be in the octal \ddd notaion.
>
>Secondly, ls * | od -c essentially does the same.

I use `od -c .'  The entries in my System V directories (AIX) are 16 bytes
wide, and just fit in one line of `od -c' output.


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