GNU bug report logs - #25495
WTF? Chmod (and presumably other coreutils) corrupt their own error messages with "smart" quotes...

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Alain Knaff <alain <at> knaff.lu>

Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 21:45:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 25495-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Alain Knaff <alain <at> knaff.lu>, Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>,
 25495-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25495: WTF? Chmod (and presumably other coreutils) corrupt
 their own error messages with "smart" quotes...
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 16:01:57 -0800

Alain Knaff wrote:
> $ LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 chmod 0 ffff
> chmod: cannot access ‘ffff’: No such file or directory

It looks like you're using an old version of coreutils. The current version 
outputs ASCII apostrophes there. This was a change committed on 2015-11-04 and 
released in coreutils 8.25; it makes it easier to cut and paste file names from 
diagnostics into shells.

Since the reported behavior is already fixed I'm taking the liberty of closing 
the bug report.
This bug report was last modified 8 years and 124 days ago.

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