[gpfsug-discuss] Special characters in filenames

[Jonathan Buzzard]

After another support incident that eventually transpired to be down to 
the user using what I will call stupid characters in their filenames (we 
include a section on not doing this in our mandatory training so no 
excuse) I have been musing on using the policy engine to periodically 
produce lists of files that have stupid characters in their filenames so 
we can proactively educate the users and get them to rename their files 
to something sensible :-)

The issue is of course the stupid characters include all the regular 
expression wildcard characters in addition to \n, \r and backticks. I am 
coming up short on escaping them correctly in REGEX() for the policy engine.

The documentation appears to be devoid of help on the subject, because 
of course only an fool would be including these characters in their 
filenames...

Anyone any idea on how to do this?


JAB.

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Jonathan A. Buzzard                         Tel: +44141-5483420
HPC System Administrator, ARCHIE-WeSt.
University of Strathclyde, John Anderson Building, Glasgow. G4 0NG