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Find all files that have nasty names

Get a list of file names that may cause problems (eg being served on a webserver, typing a URL on a mobile, etc) Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
./dir/s p a c e s.txt
./dir/bad-chars-!%+[].txt
```
2

find -name "*[^a-zA-Z0-9._-]*"

dave1010 · 2010-07-30 09:28:45 0
Blue Matrix

Same as original, but works in bash
This is sample output - yours may be different.
2

while [ 1 -lt 2 ]; do i=0; COL=$((RANDOM%$(tput cols)));ROW=$((RANDOM%$(tput cols)));while [ $i -lt $COL ]; do tput cup $i $ROW;echo -e "\033[1;34m" $(cat /dev/urandom | head -1 | cut -c1-1) 2>/dev/null ; i=$(expr $i + 1); done; done

dave1010 · 2010-05-28 16:07:56 1

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