reassign 701180 dhelp retitle 701180 "gz-extract does not handle spaces in file names" thanks
❦ 22 février 2013 14:43 CET, Laurent Bonnaud <[email protected]> : > every week I receive an email from cron with the following error messages: > > /etc/cron.weekly/dhelp: > Error decompressing file: /usr/share/doc/fvwm-crystal/Mouse bindings.txt.gz > Error decompressing file: /usr/share/doc/fvwm-crystal/Application > database.txt.gz > Error decompressing file: /usr/share/doc/fvwm-crystal/Keyboard bindings.txt.gz > > When I look at the /var/lib/doc-base/documents/fvwm-crystal.* files I > see that the space character is improperly encoded. I can't be sure because I did not create those files, but I think the question mark is a trick to avoid putting space. dhelp seems to be able to handle globbing. However, it does not handle spaces in files. The gz-extract script should use quotes around arguments: 2>/dev/null gzip -dc "${1}" > "${2}" Reassigning to dhelp. -- Watch out for off-by-one errors. - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plauger)
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