Bug 508435 - 'rm' of file with an apostrophe in it shows escape character
Summary: 'rm' of file with an apostrophe in it shows escape character
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: coreutils
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: Ondrej Vasik
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-06-27 08:14 UTC by ^mp3axe^
Modified: 2009-11-19 13:25 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-11-19 13:25:19 UTC
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Description ^mp3axe^ 2009-06-27 08:14:16 UTC 
Description of problem:
A file that rm prompts to delete will show the escape character if the file name contains an apostrophe.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
coreutils-7.2-1.fc11

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. touch he\'ll
2. rm -i he\'ll
  
Actual results:
rm: remove regular empty file `he\'ll'? 

Expected results:
rm: remove regular empty file `he'll'? 
<NOTICE Backslash should not show>

Additional info:
Comment 1 Ondrej Vasik 2009-06-27 10:41:32 UTC 
Thanks for report, it does show escape char for C locales, it's correctly escaped for multibyte locales(at least with my cs_CZ.UTF-8). Will check on Monday whether it is bug or feature.
Comment 2 Kamil Dudka 2009-11-19 13:25:19 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> Expected results:
> rm: remove regular empty file `he'll'? 
> <NOTICE Backslash should not show>

Where did you get that expectation? Please refer the corresponding documentation, standard or whatever. Closing NOTABUG for now.
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