GNU bug report logs - #57350
29.0.50; dired and filenames containing newlines

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Robert Marshall <robert <at> capuchin.co.uk>
Cc: 57350 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57350: 29.0.50; dired and filenames containing newlines
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2022 12:53:20 +0200

Robert Marshall <robert <at> capuchin.co.uk> writes:

> I was sent a file whose name contained a newline:
>
>  drwxrwxr-x   9 robert robert    12288 Aug 23 08:22 .
>   -rw-rw-r--   1 robert robert  4887658 Aug 23 08:22 21st August Draft Newsletter
>  FINAL.pdf

Unfortunately, dired just isn't designed to work with these kinds of
files.

But you can make it work by changing `dired-listing-switches':

---
If you have files with names with embedded newline characters, adding
`b' to the switches will allow Dired to handle those files better.
---

But that has other side effects some people don't like, which is why we
haven't changed the defaults.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.