Re: cut bug?

Eric Blake <[email protected]> Wed, 27 Dec 2006 21:25:50 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs,gmane.comp.gnu.textutils.bugs
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According to Bob Proulx on 12/27/2006 4:03 PM:
> 
> But as I understand it this will be a limitation of "tar tvf" listing
> output since there is no escape mechanism there for filenames
> containing spaces or newlines or other such problematic characters.

Actually, in GNU tar 1.15.90 or greater, there is the new --quoting-style
option that allows shell quoting of whitespace in filenames listed by tar tvf.

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Eric Blake             [email protected]
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