> I don't know if this is a bug or not, more of an annoyance really. When > one does a verbose 'rm', ie, 'rm -fv *.zip' they'll see this output:
This is intentional. If you were to use a console that displayed unicode, and a locale that supports unicode encodings, then you would see better quote characters. But in the default C locale, the best we can do for a visually distinct left and right quote is ` and ', as specified in the GNU Coding Standards: http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Quote-Characters > This manual documents version 5.2.1 of the GNU core utilities, > including the standard programs for text and file manipulation. Consider upgrading. The latest stable version is 5.96: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils-announce/2006-05/msg00001.html -- Eric Blake _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
