Re: [Bug-tar] Fwd: [regression] tar mess up \ and \\ files

[Markus Steinborn]

Hi Sergey,

Sergey Poznyakoff schrieb:
> My feeling is that unquoting file names obtained as arguments is 
> rather pointless. They should indeed be treated literally. Although 
> this can easily be fixed (see the attached patch), I'm afraid that the 
> fix itself might break compatibility with some existing applications 
> that use tar. Regards, Sergey 
Well, I'd prefer fixing that (if someone likes to fix it) by making 
--no-unquote the default. That leaves the caller the option to enable 
unquote if needed.I haven't had the case, but it might be that you want 
to give filenames with unprintable characters as an option, and in this 
case unquoting might be usefull.

Anyway, "tar --help" should be fixed to describe tar's behavior.


Greetings

Markus