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Re: verbose mode of RM
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Eric Blake |
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Re: verbose mode of RM |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Jun 2006 03:17:44 +0000 |
> I don't know if this is a bug or not, more of an annoyance really. When
> one does a verbose 'rm', ie, 'rm -fv *.zip' they'll see this output:
This is intentional. If you were to use a console that displayed unicode,
and a locale that supports unicode encodings, then you would see better
quote characters. But in the default C locale, the best we can do for
a visually distinct left and right quote is ` and ', as specified in the
GNU Coding Standards:
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Quote-Characters
> This manual documents version 5.2.1 of the GNU core utilities,
> including the standard programs for text and file manipulation.
Consider upgrading. The latest stable version is 5.96:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils-announce/2006-05/msg00001.html
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Eric Blake