untaring filename containing '#' issue

Pavel Machek pavel at ucw.cz
Thu May 6 06:53:13 UTC 2004


Hi!

> > > using mc 4.6.0-pre1, I've found that trying to extract files that contain at least
> > > one # in their filenames from tarballs will fail (I suppose that a shell script is
> > > tricked by this comment char, not protecting a filename w/ quotes?).
> > > 
> > 
> > No, its vfs layer using it.
> 
> Sorry, what do you mean exactly?
> I just reported than if you enter a tarball that contains a file which contains
> any # in its name, you will get problems, does it work for you?

...and I'm trying to tell you that it is not shell script that needs
escaping. Problem is in mc's vfs/ directory.

								Pavel

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