Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible?

gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) writes:

In article <87msfc7tgq.fsf@gmail.com>, Alexis  <flexibeast@gmail.com> wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
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But you can use <line noise> in a file/directory name.

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Not in a POSIX-conforming way:

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Do you know what LDO meant by the above-quoted line noise?

That, as Keith noted elsethread, they can appear in a POSIX 'pathname':

  https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/basedefs/V1_chap03.html#tag_03_254

My experience is that "file name" and "directory name" are typically
taken to refer to not the pathname / full path, but the output of applying
basename(1) to that path. i was hoping to bring some precision to the
discussion, but maybe i shouldn't have bothered.


Alexis.