Re: [bug #13303] find should filter out non-printable characters if outputting to tty

[James Youngman]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 07:38:34PM +0400, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:

> GNU ls also have --hide-control-chars/--show-control-chars options
> for explicit control.  Do you plan to introduce these options in
> find, too?

Probably a reasonable idea.  These would probably be options like -L
and -H, rather than primaries like -depth or -print.

Now that I think about it, the same should probably be true for locate
too (i.e. it should default to not sending control chars to a tty
unless -0 is in effect).

James.