Slashes in file names

[Oliver Laumann]

In article <6104 at auspex.auspex.com> guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
> Yup - in fact, that dates all the way back to V7, and even earlier (I
> don't think V6 disallowed them, either - dunno if any of its
> predecessors did).

Yeah.  I'm sure you remember the

   $ date > "foo"
   $ rm foo
   foo: non-existent
   $ rm "foo"
   $

botch of the V6 shell.

Regards,
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