Re: remove double quote character from file names

On Thu, 16 Feb 2023 11:24:31 +0100
Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:

> exist in the heap of files to be processed. Selecting a good
> delimiter for input files is hard. Using the "IFS = \n" approach
> works - as long as there are no newlines in filenames (which
> I'm not sure could also be allowed)... ;-)

	Newlines are indeed allowed in filenames viz:

✓ steve@steve ~/tmp $ touch 'a
file'
✓ steve@steve ~/tmp $ echo *
a
file
✓ steve@steve ~/tmp $ rm 'a
file' 

	There are only two byte values not allowed in the 254 bytes of a
filename - NUL and /. The ls command suppresses most of the nastier
possibilities and displays a ? these days hence the use of echo above. In
times past I have constructed confusing directories with the aid of CR and
BS and even the occasional BEL.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>