Creating weird filenames

Hi all,
After I read this article, http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-u … names.html (with which I actually agree in most points), I wondered how one can create files with such weird names.
I tried a lot, but did not succeed in it.
I am interested in this, because I am writing a php script that will parse user input to "ls". Allthough I guess I will just forbid all weird filenames and restrict them to the Portable Filename Character Set, I still was interested (just for the heck of it).
I guess such things can be done with C quite easily, but is it possible with Bash? Have any of you ever experimented with black arts like this?
Eager to know about your dirty hacks
jocom

You can specify any character in bash by the following syntax $'\xHH' (HH is the hexadecimal code of the character). Some specific syntax are also supported.
Some funny file names
touch beep$'\x07'
give a file name with a beep in it (echo * will give you an audible beep; ls seems to filter these funny characters).
touch Hello$'\n'World
give a file name with a newline in it (again visible by echo *).
Last edited by olive (2011-01-13 20:02:47)

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