<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Brandon Allbery <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 1:01 AM, Andrew Bernard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew.bernard@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrew.bernard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On what operating system can filenames contain newlines?</blockquote></div><br></span>Any unixlike system. You would need to quote the newline from the shell, but it is perfectly valid.<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"></font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Valid... Ok<br><br>Perfectly?? Here's a counter view<br><a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html">http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html</a></div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Summary: Funny chars in filenames is a feature close to a bug in *Nix filesystems<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">So my advice for this would be: <br></div><div class="gmail_extra">- If you have better things to do dont bother<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">- if for some reason you do need to bother, respect <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle">Postel's law</a> and allow it out more reluctantly than in<br></div></div>