https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=275967
Bug ID: 275967
Summary: man(1) does not support some special characters in
filenames
Product: Base System
Version: CURRENT
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Some People
Priority: ---
Component: bin
Assignee: b...@freebsd.org
Reporter: wo...@freebsd.org
The shell script /usr/bin/man does not support some meta shell characters as
"(", "&", ")", ">", "<", "|"; ";"
E.g.
$ cp /usr/share/man/man1/cat.1.gz 'c;t.1.gz'
$ /usr/bin/man "./c;t.1.gz"
gzcat: can't stat: ./c: No such file or directory
eval: t.1.gz: not found
gzcat: can't stat: ./c: No such file or directory
eval: t.1.gz: not found
$ cp /usr/share/man/man1/cat.1.gz 'd(t.1.gz'
$ /usr/bin/man "./d(t.1.gz"
deval: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
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