Your message dated Wed, 15 Oct 2025 18:41:12 -0400
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and subject line Re: Bug#1118171: coreutils: "ls -b" isnt able to correctly
escape the "," comma sign
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regarding coreutils: "ls -b" isnt able to correctly escape the "," comma sign
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Package: coreutils
Version: 9.7-3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
first of all thanks for all the hard work in creating and maintaining the
debian distribution.
* What led up to the situation?
I first encountered the issue, when using the output of the command
$ find -ls
First I tought it is a bug in find, but obviously find -ls is just using ls
with some options to generate the list output.
* What exactly did you do?
* What was the outcome of this action?
$ mkdir test
$ cd test
$ mkdir I\,\ learn\(again\)
$ ls
'I, learn(again)'
$ ls -b
I,\ learn(again)
$ ls I,\ learn(again)
-bash: Syntaxfehler beim unerwarteten Symbol »(«
$
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Correctly it should give output like this:
I\,\ learn\(again\)
Thanks for your support
Regards
Andy
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.3.2-2+b1
ii libattr1 1:2.5.2-3
ii libc6 2.41-12
ii libcap2 1:2.75-10+b1
ii libgmp10 2:6.3.0+dfsg-3
ii libselinux1 3.8.1-1
ii libssl3t64 3.5.1-1
ii libsystemd0 257.8-1~deb13u2
coreutils recommends no packages.
coreutils suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 12:15:27AM +0200, Andy Pie wrote:
$ mkdir test
$ cd test
$ mkdir I\,\ learn\(again\)
$ ls
'I, learn(again)'
$ ls -b
I,\ learn(again)
$ ls I,\ learn(again)
-bash: Syntaxfehler beim unerwarteten Symbol »(«
$
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Correctly it should give output like this:
I\,\ learn\(again\)
No, it shouldn't: -b is documented to quote "nongraphic characters";
that is, spaces, tabs, control codes, etc. Neither , nor () are
nongraphic characters.
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