On Monday 02 May 2016, Michael Albinus wrote: > Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> writes: > > Hi, > > >> 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' > >> . > >> > >> This looks pretty strange. It is with "stat (GNU coreutils) 8.25". > >> Earlier stat versions, say "stat (GNU coreutils) 6.12" on a very > >> old machine I have access too, used to return `foo\tbar' . > > > > We were thinking that since %N returns the quoted file name, > > that it would be more generally useful to return the shell quoted > > format, as that can be copied and pasted back to a shell command. > > For example it allows one to always paste back the file name from > > `stat *` which includes %N in the default output. > > I'm using stat in Emacs/Tramp in order to retrieve information about > files on remote hosts. The returned string is parsed then inside > Emacs. > > This is broken now, and I'm really undecided whether I shall start to > parse a shell quoted output. Likely not, if you bring this > functionality back, somehow. For the time being, I'll disable use of > stat in Tramp (unfortunately too late for the upcoming Emacs 25.1). > > Btw, neither in the stat man page nor in the NEWS file of coreutils I > found a hint about the changed behaviour. It would be nice to > announce such incompatible changes, somehow.
Actually it would be nice to simply _avoid_ such incompatible changes. This new quoting style default is just ugly, unreadable and annoying. Please revert. cu, Rudi
