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bug#46705: 27.1; Dired fails to move files with newlines inside their na
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#46705: 27.1; Dired fails to move files with newlines inside their names. |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Feb 2021 19:02:27 +0200 |
> From: Vladimir Nikishkin <lockywolf@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 00:11:37 +0800
> Cc: 46705@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Shouldn't "seeing" characters be independent of working with files?
If you use -b, you will be able to do both.
> I don't mind seeing newlines as line breaks, that's what they are, after all.
> Thunar shows them as line
> breaks.
>
> But shouldn't moving files work regardless? I'm using the coreutils version
> of ls, a fairly standard one.
There's nothing wrong with 'ls', but when a file name includes certain
special characters, Dired cannot cope with them, unless they are
presented suitably escaped. It's a known issue for which we don't
have a better solution than use -b.