GNU bug report logs - #58664
29.0.50; Dired fails to operate on files with newline charachters in name

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
Cc: 58664 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58664: 29.0.50; Dired fails to operate on files with newline charachters in name
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 20:54:39 +0300

> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 17:39:12 +0000
> 
> 
> If I create a file in the shell using
> 
>    $ touch "one
>    two"
>    $ ls
>    'one'$'\n''two'
> 
> and try to open this directory using Dired, I get the following
> 
>     -rw-r--r--. 1 philip philip    0 Oct 20 19:37 one
>   two
> 
> where the "t" in two is highlighted.  If I try to mark the file and
> delete it, Dired attempts to delete the file "one", that luckily doesn't
> exist.

This is a known issue.  The best solution we have for it is to use -b
in the ls switches used by Dired.  (That cannot be the default because
-b has adverse effect in other cases.)

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