Re^4: This is not an illegal filename

by ChemBoy (Priest)

on Mar 14, 2005 at 05:14 UTC ( [id://439173]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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I've seen this assertion several times now, though the last time was a while ago. It hasn't gotten any more correct in the interim.

$ touch \|
$ file !$
file \|
|: empty
$ ls -l \|
-rw-r--r--  1 chemboy users 0 Mar 14 00:09 |
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That, for the record, was on Gentoo Linux on a G4, but similar results can be readily obtained on other platforms.

If God had meant us to fly, he would *never* have given us the railroads.
--Michael Flanders

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Re^5: This is not an illegal filename by pijll (Beadle) on Mar 14, 2005 at 10:54 UTC
Thanks. I should have checked that. I probably meant: `'\|'` is unlikely to be a pipe.	[reply]

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