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Oh SNAP! Old-school '80s Unix hack to smack OSX, iOS, Red Hat?

Michael Wojcik Silver badge

Re: which is why...

unix programmers and administrators have used ./* since 1988 to avoid this

Yes, and why modern versions of find(1) have the "-print0" option and xargs(1) the corresponding "-0" option, and so on. It's a widely-recognized issue.

There's also the related trick of embedding ANSI or other terminal control code sequences in filenames, for entertainment when someone lists them using a suitable terminal (emulator).

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