Re: mkdir and ls display

[Ngô Huy]

Dear Padraig,

2015-11-09 18:20 GMT+07:00 Pádraig Brady <address@hidden>:

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.

I see this, but when use mkdir "* /" && mkdir "* /etc", it shouldn't be / in file name, right ? We try to avoid incident problem, I think we should limit file name's character.

Cheers,

Severus

cheers,
Pádraig.