`touch' created wrong file without giving error

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jun  4 08:41, Peter J. Acklam wrote:
> I tried creating a file named " foo ", i.e., with two leading and
> two trailing blanks using "touch".  It turned out that "touch"
> created the file, but without the two trailing blanks.  It might
> be that a file name with trailing blanks can't be created on an
> NTFS file system, but "touch" shouldn't create the wrong file but
> rather give an error telling that it failed.  Silently creating
> the wrong name is generally bad:

That's exactly what Windows does.  Trailing spaces and dots are silently
ignored.

Corinna

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