[Gllug] Finding filenames with special characters (was Mass renaming of files)

[Chris Bell]

On Sun 11 May, Richard Jones wrote:

> 
> > There are also some directorys and files with no names! How am I
> > supposed to find them???
> 
> With no names ... this sounds unlikely. Valid Unix filenames have to
> be at least one character long. Do a 'ls -lb' of the offending
> directory and post it here.
> 
> > It would probably be better to stop the OS allowing daft filenames like
> > these. Is that possible?
> 
> Are these mounted by the clients using Samba or appleshare? If so then
> there might be a way to configure or patch these tools so that they
> refuse to create files with unusual names.
> 
> Rich.
> 
   Are these names one or more hard spaces?


-- 
Chris Bell



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