Re: Bug#311384: [bug #13303] find should filter out non-printable characters if outputting to tty

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2005-06-07 09:08:50 +0100, James Youngman wrote:
> How did you find the patch?

The behaviour seems OK to me.

> More importantly, is the updated documentation intelligible?

address@hidden -ls
address@hidden -fls
+Unusual characters are always escaped.  White space, backslash, and
+double quote characters are printed using C-style escaping (for
+example @samp{\f}, @samp{\"}).  Other unusual characters are printed
+using an octal escape.  Printable characters (for @samp{-ls} and
address@hidden these are the characters between octal 040 and 0177) are
+printed as-is.

There are two problems in the last sentence. First, 0177 is not a
printable character; this is the DEL character and is displayed as
\177 by "find . -ls". Moreover you should probably add "after the
possible backslash" or say "*Other* printable characters".

Ditto concerning the man page.

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