[X-Unix] question about 'find'

Aaron macuser at aarons.fastmail.fm
Mon Nov 28 19:44:55 PST 2005


At 08:28 -0500 2005/11/28, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
>And many others, such as brackets/braces. I assume (hope!) that '/' is
>no longer legal, for it was the scourge of the Solaris-based CAP/AUFS admin.

If you use a '/' in a filename using the GUI, it gets translated to a ":" when viewed from the CLI. Presumably, that's also how it's stored internally.

The conversion also works in the other direction, unsurprisingly, i.e., ":" in the CLI to '/' in the GUI.

 - Aaron
 - Running 10.3.9 on a G4 Dual 867 MDD.



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