On 05/02/2016 03:27 AM, Michael Albinus wrote: > 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' .
That is intentional; in the same vein as the way 'ls' changed its default output for files with awkward characters. The defaults are to quote in a way that is reusable by shells that understand $'' quoting (since POSIX will be adding support for it). And you can always select other quoting methods, via the QUOTING_STYLE environment variable. Hmm, maybe 'stat' should gain a --quoting-style command line option to override the env-var, the same way as is done in ls. So on that grounds, I'll leave this bug report open. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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