On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Sergey Poznyakoff <g...@gnu.org.ua> wrote: > Hi Markus, > >> Nowhere it mentions that unquoting is restricted to filenames read >> with -T. From the documentation I'd guess that unquoting applies to >> filenames from the command line, too. > > Yes, indeed, the unquoting is applied to names obtained from the command > line as well, and as I said in my previous post that's the way tar > operated at least since v. 1.13. > >> So what behavior is intended? > > My feeling is that unquoting file names obtained as arguments is rather > pointless. They should indeed be treated literally. Although this can > easily be fixed (see the attached patch), I'm afraid that the fix itself > might break compatibility with some existing applications that use tar.
Yes they should be indeed treated literally. I use shell completion and it is pretty natural to get the name as is. Could you give us a solution in either way ? Bastien > Regards, > Sergey >
