[techtalk] Filename star

[Kirrily 'Skud' Robert]

In article <19991229140622.A850 at Ridcully.home>, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
>
>One final anecdote: Kernighan and Pike in "The Practice of Programming" tell
>of how Stephen Bourne (writer of the Bourne shell, amazingly enough) created
>254 files for testing his shell's file handling capabilities: each file had a
>one character name and he used every character in the set except for '\0' and
>'\', which are not allowed in Unix as filenames. So some shells, at least, can
>handle these things.

\ is legal ... / is not.

hiro:~> touch \\
hiro:~> ls \\
\

K.

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