With coreutils 8.25 on Cygwin I get this; P01104393> rm -i a\ b rm: remove regular empty file 'a'$'\t''b'?
What is this? The filename is 'a b' and not the nonsense rm outputs. There is a tab character between a and b. P01104393> rm --version rm (GNU coreutils) 8.25 Packaged by Cygwin (8.25-3) Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Richard M. Stallman, and Jim Meyering.
