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Per Starbäck |
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Backslash to slash |
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Fri, 23 May 2008 13:44:26 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
diff -u doc/find.texi.~1~ doc/find.texi
--- doc/find.texi.~1~ 2008-03-10 21:31:16.000000000 +0100
+++ doc/find.texi 2008-05-23 13:37:29.000000000 +0200
@@ -4121,8 +4121,8 @@
@subsection Unusual characters in filenames
Unix-like systems allow any characters to appear in file names with
-the exception of the ASCII NUL character and the backslash.
-Backslashes can occur in path names (as the directory separator) but
+the exception of the ASCII NUL character and the slash.
+Slashes can occur in path names (as the directory separator) but
not in the names of actual directory entries. This means that the
list of files that @code{xargs} reads could in fact contain white space
characters --- spaces, tabs and newline characters. Since by default,
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