Character escaping in item name
Richard Taubo
ort at bergersen.no
Mon Apr 19 06:48:01 MDT 2010
Hi!
In the rsync man page under " -8, --8-bit-output", it says:
. . .
All control characters (but never tabs) are always escaped, regardless of this option's setting.
The escape idiom that started in 2.6.7 is to output a literal backslash (\) and a hash (#),
followed by exactly 3 octal digits. For example, a newline would output as "\#012".
A literal backslash that is in a filename is not escaped unless it is followed by a hash and 3 digits (0-9).
Is there a list somewhere where I can find:
a) Which control characters will be escaped?
b) What digits the escaped control characters will get?
I was thinking b) would be the similar to the appropriate ascii code,
but since LF has ascii code 10 and CR har ascii code 13,
I was having problems finding the right code e.g. "\#012" for newline.
Thanks for your help! :-)
Richard Taubo
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