Subject: wrong rm -i prompt
From: "Lemke, Michael ST/HZA-ZIC2" <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 17:11:03 +0000
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

With coreutils 8.25 on Cygwin I get this;

P01104393> rm -i a\    b
rm: remove regular empty file 'a'$'\t''b'?

What is this?  The filename is 'a	b' and not the nonsense rm outputs.
There is a tab character between a and b.

P01104393> rm --version
rm (GNU coreutils) 8.25
Packaged by Cygwin (8.25-3)
Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Richard M. Stallman,
and Jim Meyering.