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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] dumb question
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 14:30:45 +0000
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Boyd Roberts wrote:
> As far as quoting went I think i decided that if you were stupid
> enough to name your files with newlines you didn't deserve to get
> them copied.

But in general one might be processing files named by somebody else,
e.g. to move the last user off a mounted filesystem onto a new
larger one.  And in general it's a serious problem:
	$ > 'funny file name; rm -rf /'
	$ ls
	funny file name; rm -rf /
	$ find . -print | xargs echo
	funny file name
	panic -- essential files not found