Re: question mark in filename.

[Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 5:50 AM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Not that there should ever be such a thing, but I was curious:  I throw
> strings around mostly successfully but not with the stupid question mark:
>
>
>     function test1 ()
>     {
>          input=( "$@" )         # 'input' is fine: "ls s,7*"
>          eval $input            # this works fine.
>          output=( $(eval ${()input}) )
>          print "$output"        # ... but 'output' looses the question
>     marks.
>     }
>
>     function test2 ()
>     {
>          string="ls s,7*"       # 'ls' finds: 's,7,big?improvements?in?code'
>          test1 $string
>     }
>
>     $ . test; test2
>     s,7,big?improvements?in?code
>     s,7,big improvements in code

My guess is that the name of this file contains something interesting
in place of question marks (ascii 63). Try this:

    ls s,7* | cat -v
    print -r -- s,7* | od -t x1 -An -v

Roman.