Bug 64007 – Mishandling of white space in directory paths

Bug 64007 - Mishandling of white space in directory paths

Summary:	Mishandling of white space in directory paths

Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	rpm (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.3
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Jeff Johnson
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Reported:	2002-04-23 13:49 EDT by Robert Nichols
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:38 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2002-04-23 13:49:22 EDT
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Description Robert Nichols 2002-04-23 13:49:17 EDT

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Description of problem:
The command "rpm -q -p <directory-path>/<some_pkg>.rpm" fails if the
directory-path contains any white space characters.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. $ mkdir "/tmp/a b c"
2. $ cp -a diffutils-2.7-23.i386.rpm "/tmp/a b c/"
3. $ rpm -q -p "/tmp/a b c/diffutils-2.7-23.i386.rpm"

	

Actual Results:  error: open of /tmp/a failed: No such file or directory


Expected Results:  diffutils-2.7-23


Additional info:

rpm-4.0.4-7x

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2002-05-09 12:17:48 EDT

If you *must* query filenames with embedded spaces,
then you will need to add an extra level of escaping
to get past rpm's globbing and reparsing of CLI
arguments.

Here's what will "work" for your example:
  rpm -q -p /tmp/a\\\ b\\\ c/diffutils-2.7-23.i386.rpm

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2002-05-16 18:48:51 EDT

*** Bug 65070 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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