diffing special chars

[shadoi@soulmachine.com]

Maybe piping the output from ls -b or find to tr with some options would do the trick.. Maybe using grep to pull out only the ones you want to fix for speed..

* Blake

On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:12:56PM -0700, der.hans wrote:
> moin, moin,
> 
> doing a couple of filesystems lists and then diffing them to make sure
> they contain the same files. I'm running into a prob with files that have
> either special chars or spaces embedded in the name/path.
> 
> find wants to turn special chars into gobbly-gook, whereas tar renders the
> escapes sequences. Use ls -b to turn the special chars into escape
> sequences it also adds escapes for spaces, which tar doesn't do.
> 
> Either of these probs trips up diff when verifying that the file lists are
> the same.
> 
> Anyone know a solution that doesn't require brute forcing with tools like
> perl or sed/awk?
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans
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