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Article #370A serious bug in unix2dos/dos2unix
From: Haiying ZHANG
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 22:41
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 22:41
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I came across this bug a while ago. This has to do with using wild card in file names with unix2dos/dos2unix. If you use a wild card in the file name, be it a single * or a ? embedded in a pattern, these two handy utilities will wipe out your entire current directory with the exception of the first file. It will set all the rest of the file to size 0. Although the man page does mention anything about wild card in filename making one believe that it is not supported, it should not in any case cause serious damaging to your files. While I am at it, these two programs look like a recompile of its DOS version. It should have provided more - options such as -Rfp etc. as in cp. I hope that somebody could get hold of this and put some action into it. For such a widely used simple utility to have these serious bug and disfunctions is really a shame. Haiying
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!olivea!charnel!sifon!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!haiying From: haiying@cs.mcgill.ca (Haiying ZHANG) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.bugs.sys5,comp.bugs.misc,comp.sources.bugs Subject: A serious bug in unix2dos/dos2unix Message-ID: <1992Dec12.224109.15621@cs.mcgill.ca> Date: 12 Dec 92 22:41:09 GMT Sender: news@cs.mcgill.ca (Netnews Administrator) Organization: SOCS - McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 21