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Re: null record separator prints only one file


From: Greg Wooledge
Subject: Re: null record separator prints only one file
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 07:21:36 -0400

On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 02:18:39AM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> What does this give?
> 
> find "$fdir" -type f -name "*-*.png"


On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 02:43:24AM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2021, tolugboji wrote:
> > > What does this give?
> > > 
> > > find "$fdir" -type f -name "-.png"


Hilarious.

See how the asterisks are being lost?  It's their mail user agent.
It probably sees Chris's asterisk-hyphen-asterisk and says "Oho!  This
is markdown for a boldface hyphen!  I shall render a boldface hyphen,
and hide the asterisks!"

MUAs written by and for idiots. :-(



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