gzip can send non-printable characters to the terminal in its error message. This is bad because escape sequences and control characters can have unpredictable consequences in the terminal.
For instance, $ touch "$(printf "file\e[H\e[c\n\b")" $ gunzip file* makes xterm crash with reverseWrap enabled. Note: The end user is not necessary the cause of such of file name, which may come from a downloaded archive or from a bug in some software. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
