Re: [Bug-tar] file name with backslash is not archived

[Joerg Schilling]

Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hugo Mildenberger <address@hidden> ha escrit:
>
> > No Paul,  the bug really occures when tar unquotes a string passed 
> > from command line.
>
> It's not a bug.  The section 6.2, "Selecting Archive Members"[1], says:
>
>     By default GNU `tar' attempts to "unquote" each file or member name,
>     replacing "escape sequences" according to the following table:
>     ...


This seems to be in violation to the SUSv2 standard.

Jörg

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