severity 27864 wishlist
tags 27864 wontfix
close 27864
stop
(triaging old bugs)
On 2017-07-29 10:05 a.m., Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 28/07/17 09:28, R0b0t1 wrote:
I recently had a script create a file named "~" when I passed it a
value for an installation directory. Without thinking the next command
I typed was the one in the title. Luckily this was not my main
computer and was a virtual machine.
On 2017-07-28 11:07 a.m., Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>
> rm(1) does not see the tilde "~", but the shell expands it before
> invoking the tool:
This was one of the reasons that upstream ls defaults to quoting
problematic file names like this. With that you can always
copy and paste the name ('~' in this case), for subsequent use.
Even if not copy/pasting '~' would give a visual indication
that the quoting was needed. If your distro disables that feature,
you can enable it in your ls alias using --quoting='shell-escape'
Given the above, and no further comments in a year,
I'm closing this bug.
Discussion can continue by replying to this thread.
-assaf
