bug#23737: wrong rm -i prompt

2016-06-09 Thread Eric Blake
tag 23737 notabug thanks On 06/09/2016 11:11 AM, Lemke, Michael ST/HZA-ZIC2 wrote: > 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

bug#23737: wrong rm -i prompt

2016-06-09 Thread Lemke, Michael ST/HZA-ZIC2
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