Subject: Re: bug#79231: sends non-printable characters to the terminal in error message

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 09:08:26 -0700

On 8/13/25 07:49, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> $ touch "$(printf "file\e[H\e[c\n\b")"
> $ gunzip file*

Not sure it's gzip's job to sanitize file names that the user gave it. 
Pretty much every much program in the universe will output file names 
as-is, if the user tells it the file name explicitly. Why should gzip be 
an exception?