Re: [Bug-tar] mis-handling of weird filenames

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Bdale Garbee <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> Some years ago, a Debian user pointed out that tar behaves badly when
> given legal (but weird?) POSIX filenames like
> 
>       \fhd =

   "For instance, the command

       tar vzcf file.tar.gz '\fhd ='

    exits with the following error:

       tar: \fhd =: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
       tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors"

This is the correct behavior. The --unquote option is used by default,
so the \f in the file name is translated to ASCII form-feed character.
This is documented in

  
https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Selecting-Archive-Members.html

The reporter should have used the --no-unquote option to disable unquoting.
  
Regards,
Sergey