Timeline for Group files and directories based on first letter of their name and move them to directories of that letter
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| Apr 16, 2021 at 14:37 | comment | added | ilkkachu | @RalfFriedl, but, a world where such effed-up filenames were not possible would indeed be a nicer one. We just need to convince every Unix-like system to add some limitations. Or at least convince them to read dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html | |
| Apr 16, 2021 at 14:06 | comment | added | ilkkachu | @RalfFriedl, of nothing else, we see them every time we test the answers we write here on the site :D | |
| Apr 16, 2021 at 13:00 | comment | added | terdon♦ | Yes, of course. Many times. Usually because of a bug somewhere, but not always. More importantly, such files can be trivially created (e.g. touch foo$'\n'bar) so we should make sure we can deal with them. | |
| Apr 16, 2021 at 12:58 | comment | added | RalfFriedl | @terdon Yes. But have you ever seen newline in file names in real life? | |
| Apr 16, 2021 at 12:45 | comment | added | terdon♦ | Note that your sed approach will fail if any file names contain newlines. | |
| Apr 16, 2021 at 12:42 | history | answered | RalfFriedl | CC BY-SA 4.0 |