Re: Gnu findutils

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From: Jonathan Stowe
Subject: Re: Gnu findutils
Date: 16:45 on 05 Mar 2004
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 23:58, David Cantrell wrote:
> Peter da Silva wrote:
> 
> > UNIX lets you do it too. And there have been applications as far back as the
> > V6 era that did.
> 
> I once created a file with a / in its name on SCO.  I have no idea how, 
> but I'd love to be able to repeat it, if only for producing pathological 
> test data.

I seem to recall that there is/was a specific case on windows whereby
doing something similar would cause the file to be invisible in both
explorer and 'dir', I can't replicate it here though.

Mind I had an ICL DRS/NX machine that had a directory called ' ' that
was a hard link to '.', I was never quite sure how that happened either.
All sorts of fun ensued.

/J\

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