Re: [Bug-tar] tar -T improperly handle escaped characters

[Nicolas Dudebout]

echoing was only done in this bug report to give the use case. I actually wrote the file manually and had the same problem.

This problem came up in docker as reported in this issue: https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/2403

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

On 10/29/2013 02:41 PM, Nicolas Dudebout wrote:
> The `--files-from` (`-T`) option does not properly work in 1.27 but was
> properly working in 1.26. It fails in the presence of escaped characters as
> described in the following code snippet:
>
> ```
> mkdir test
> cd test
> echo something > foo-bar
> echo 'foo\\055bar' > baz

echo'ing a backslash is non-portable.  Are you sure that you are getting
the contents you intended?  To be portable, use printf(1) instead of
echo(1) whenever \ is involved.

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