In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmm, it actually seems to be a bug with `ls'!
> I created two files, one called `abc\ndef' (where \n is a newline), and > one called `1234567'. Here's what ls prints if stdout is a tty (I've > indented the output by 3 spaces): > (tmp) LANG=ja_JP.eucJP ls -l --dired abc* 123* > -rw-rw---- 1 miles 6 2003-01-27 13:03 1234567 > -rw-rw---- 1 miles 6 2003-01-27 12:58 abc?def > //DIRED// 53 60 114 121 > //DIRED-OPTIONS// --quoting-style=literal > [note that the start/end offsets of each filename differ by 7] > But here's what the _same_ command prints if stdout is a pipe (which I > presume is the case for dired): > (tmp) LANG=ja_JP.eucJP ls -l --dired abc* 123* | cat > -rw-rw---- 1 miles 6 2003-01-27 13:03 1234567 > -rw-rw---- 1 miles 6 2003-01-27 12:58 abc > def > //DIRED// 53 60 114 120 > //DIRED-OPTIONS// --quoting-style=literal > Now the start/end offsets of `abc\ndef' now only differ by 6 (which is > obviously wrong, since the filename is 7 characters long)! Morever > this problem only seems to occur if LANG=ja_JP.eucJP, _not_ if LANG=C. > My ls --version says: ls (coreutils) 4.5.4 > What version do you have? Mine is "ls (fileutils) 4.1", and that works correctly even if the stdout is a pile in any locales as below. [~/tmp:709] LANG=ja_JP.eucJP \ls -l --dired abc* 123*|cat -rw-rw-r-- 1 handa handa 6 Jan 27 13:50 1234567 -rw-rw-r-- 1 handa handa 6 Jan 27 13:51 abc def //DIRED// 58 65 124 131 //DIRED-OPTIONS// --quoting-style=(null) [~/tmp:710] LANG=de_DE \ls -l --dired abc* 123*|cat -rw-rw-r-- 1 handa handa 6 Jan 27 13:50 1234567 -rw-rw-r-- 1 handa handa 6 Jan 27 13:51 abc def //DIRED// 58 65 124 131 //DIRED-OPTIONS// --quoting-style=(null) [~/tmp:711] LANG=C \ls -l --dired abc* 123*|cat -rw-rw-r-- 1 handa handa 6 Jan 27 13:50 1234567 -rw-rw-r-- 1 handa handa 6 Jan 27 13:51 abc def //DIRED// 58 65 124 131 //DIRED-OPTIONS// --quoting-style=(null) The difference with your case is in --quoting-style, I don't know that meaning. --- Ken'ichi HANDA [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
