Hidden directories

[Bob Goudreau]

In article <261FC9B3.583F at marob.masa.com>, daveh at marob.masa.com (Dave
Hammond) writes:
> 
> >Another way to give trouble to anyone wanting to look inside, is to embed a 
> >control character inside the name.  I typically use a backspace, for
example:
> >abc\bde
> >[...]
> 
> Of course, anyone capable of using `od' can short circuit any of these
> tricks by simply typing:
> 
> 	od -c <directory>
> 
> In fact, if the system uses SYSV-like directories, the output will read
> like a road map of the directory contents:

Of course, if you have a System V OS, it's probably easier to
use "ls -b" (force printing of non-graphic characters in octal \ddd
notation) in the first place.

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