Problematic Characters in Path?

[baskerville]

It seems like brackets in file names with lead to tricky situations:

awk: cmd. line:32: (FILENAME=- FNR=67) fatal: Invalid range end: //home/foo/bar/Foo.-.[12-3-4567]/

[rupa]

Just tested it out, completion seems to work OK, to use brackets in search patterns looks like you have to double escape them eg z \\[12-3

[baskerville]

I didn't type any bracket characters, just:

z Foo

[rupa]

Hmm, I can't reproduce that. Am I doing anything different than you?

~$ mkdir Foo.-.\[12-3-4567\]
~$ cd Foo.-.[12-3-4567]
~/Foo.-.[12-3-4567]$ cd
~$ z Foo
~/Foo.-.[12-3-4567]$

[baskerville]

If I do the same thing, I get the aforementioned error after the last command:

awk: cmd. line:32: (FILENAME=- FNR=73) fatal: Invalid range end: //home/me/Foo.-.[12-3-4567]/

[rupa]

Huh, what OS are you using. If it's a *nix, what awk is installed (on the Ubuntu machine I'm on at the moment it's mawk)?

[baskerville]

Arch Linux, gawk 4.0.1.