Description of problem: Different characters are used in rm <file> command. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 4) Linux hostname 2.6.9-42.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 12 23:27:17 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. create a tempfile 2. run the command rm <filename> 3. Type y to delete the file Actual results: rm: remove regular empty file `tempFile'? y Expected results: rm: remove regular empty file `tempFile`? y or rm: remove regular empty file 'tempFile'? y Additional info: In the interactive mode the file name in encoded in two different characters "`" and "'", so any one character should be used as `filename` or 'filename'. Preferably 'filename'
This is related to the rm command, which in turn is part of package coreutils. Reassigning bug to proper component. Read ya, Phil
Sorry for late response. That is not a bug, that is expected behavior. This is one of the correct quoting styles generally used by coreutils (to check all correct coreutils quoting styles you could read http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Formatting-the-file-names.html#Formatting-the-file-names). Anyway - changing behavior - like default quoting style for some command - is dangerous thing in distribution like RHEL, because that style could be expected in some scripts/parsers - and change like this will break them. Closing NOTABUG.