Re: mkdir and ls display

[Pádraig Brady]

On 09/11/15 08:30, Ngô Huy wrote:
> Dear guys,
> 
> I had problem with mkdir and ls when I used command:
> 
> mkdir "* /" && mkdir "* /etc" && ls.
> 
> It only displayed *.

Note as yet unreleased version of ls will use shell quoting
to give a less ambiguous output:

$ ls
'* '

> But
> 
> find . -type d -print
> 
> display ./* /etc.
> 
> If we have hidden directory and use xargs with find to execute some command, 
> it's security risk. Should we patch it's behavior ?

I think you're worried about the '*' being expanded?
Or maybe the xargs splitting on the space.
In any case you can use `find ... -print0 | xargs -0`
to handle that.

Not something that mkdir (coreutils) should be worried
about in any case.

cheers,
Pádraig.