From: Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: CB-UNIX dsw(1l) Page from PDP-7?
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2023 14:34:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7a4700f1-7465-4549-985c-83ad7dd8b00e@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
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On Fri, Jun 2, 2023, at 19:04, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
> Finally, this page plainly spells out the history of the command in the
> bugs section:
>
> "This command was written in 2 minutes to delete a particular file that
> managed to get an 0200 bit in its name. It should work by printing the
> name of each file in a specified directory and requestion a 'y' or 'n'
> answer. Better, it should be an option of rm(1). The name is
> mnemonic, but likely to cause trouble in the future."
One thing this makes me wonder is why the solution chosen wasn't to make a command that could *rename* the offending directory entry [which, then, with problematic characters removed, could be examined before deleting normally].
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-05 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-02 23:04 [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2023-06-03 12:59 ` [TUHS] " Marc Donner
2023-06-03 15:19 ` Ron Natalie
2023-06-05 18:34 ` Random832 [this message]
2023-06-05 19:30 Norman Wilson
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