Character escaping in item name
Carlos Carvalho
carlos at fisica.ufpr.br
Mon Apr 19 18:48:28 MDT 2010
Richard Taubo (ort at bergersen.no) wrote on 19 April 2010 14:48:
>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?
The ones which have value below space, that is less than 32 (decimal)
in the ascii table.
> b) What digits the escaped control characters will get?
Explained in your quote of the manual.
>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.
It's not written in base 10, it's in base 8.
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