Re: find omits dollar signs in filenames was wrong

Oh sorry, that was BS: It is "ls -q" which inserts dollar signs in front of quoted formatting characters.

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Cheers,
Olf



On 21 July 2024 19:16:11 CEST, Olf <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>the GNU find utility does not output dollar signs embedded in
>filenames, i.e. it emits non-matching filenames!  I am pretty sure that
>this in not the intended behaviour.
>
>I came across this when creating a command line which properly handles 
>filenames with unusual characters, for which I created three test files
>starting with "ab".  Note that ls correctly outputs the dollar sign as
>third character of the second filename, but find does not:
>
>$ ls -1q ab*
>'ab"cd'\''ef()gh:;ij'
>'ab'$'\n''cd'$'\t''ef*gh?jk lm'
>'ab[x-y]c{1,2,3}d{4..6}e'
>$ find -L . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name 'ab*' -print
>./ab?cd?ef*gh?jk lm
>./ab"cd'ef()gh:;ij
>./ab[x-y]c{1,2,3}d{4..6}e
>$ find -L . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name 'ab*' -print0 | tr '\0' '\n'
>./ab
>cd	ef*gh?jk lm
>./ab"cd'ef()gh:;ij
>./ab[x-y]c{1,2,3}d{4..6}e
>$ find -L . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name 'ab*' -print0 | tr '$\0' 'A\n'
>./ab
>cd	ef*gh?jk lm
>./ab"cd'ef()gh:;ij
>./ab[x-y]c{1,2,3}d{4..6}e
>$ find --version
>find (GNU findutils) 4.7.0
>Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
><https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
>This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
>There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>
>Written by Eric B. Decker, James Youngman, and Kevin Dalley.
>Features enabled: D_TYPE O_NOFOLLOW(enabled) LEAF_OPTIMISATION
>FTS(FTS_CWDFD) CBO(level=2) 
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