Hi, > Could you pls report back whether this helps?
yes, the included version of tramp-get-remote-stat fixes the problem. I did - (require 'tramp-sh) - evaled the new tramp-get-remote-stat defun - checked the let expression and also independently tried file-attributes and checked then in .emacs.d/tramp and also in the trump debug buffer It also works with coreutils 8.23, which doesn't honor QUOTING_STYLE. Thanks a lot for the quick fix! Hendrik
