bug#46705: 27.1; Dired fails to move files with newlines inside their names.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> 1. "echo foo; echo bar| xargs -0 touch" -- should create a file called
>> foo\nbar
>> 2. Try to use R in dired on this file, to move elsewhere.
>> 3. Observe dired fail.
>
> You need to add -b to the Dired switches (i.e. "C-u C-x d" and type
> "-alb") to be able to see special characters correctly, I think.

This question keeps coming up, but I see that it's not mentioned in the
Dired part of the manual?  It could be mentioned, for instance, in the
bit about `dired-listing-switches'?  And perhaps in the doc string of
that variable.

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