On 02/05/16 15:27, Michael Albinus wrote:
Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> writes:
Hi Eric,
I have a file called "foo<TAB>bar". Yes, it includes the <TAB> char in
its name. When I call "stat -c %N", I get 'foo'$'\t''bar' .
That is intentional; in the same vein as the way 'ls' changed its
default output for files with awkward characters. The defaults are to
quote in a way that is reusable by shells that understand $'' quoting
(since POSIX will be adding support for it). And you can always select
other quoting methods, via the QUOTING_STYLE environment variable.
Thanks for the hint with QUOTING_STYLE. However, it doesn't work for me:
# env QUOTING_STYLE=escape /usr/bin/stat -c %N /tmp/foo*
'/tmp/foo'$'\t''bar'
Right, stat currently hard codes the "shell" style.
It probably makes sense to have this configurable.
I'll do that for the next release.
thanks,
Pádraig.
