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To: Mike Heffner <spock@techfour.net>
Subject: Re: that patch for mktemp? 
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From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <XFMail.20000430235830.mheffner@mailandnews.com> Mike Heffner writes:
: Hrm, I suppose we might also want to get rid of '~' then.

~ isn't too special to shells, so unless it is at the start of a
filename, you shouldn't have a problem.

That said, all of the following are special metacharacters to shells:
	!$^&*(){}[]?~`"';<>|\

(recall that ^ is a synonym for |).

Warner


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