Re: dired mode subshell doesn't handle strange names properly

[prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)]

toby.h.ferguson@sun.com (Toby H Ferguson) wrote:
> I created a directory called '-Djava' - I listed it using dired, but
> when I went to do a 'dired-do-shell-command' on it (the command being
> rm -rf), the command failed with the following output:
>
> rm: illegal option -- D
> rm: illegal option -- j
> rm: illegal option -- a
> rm: illegal option -- v
> rm: illegal option -- a
> usage: rm [-fiRr] file ...
>
> This can be fixed by ensuring that the arguments are followed by '--'
> - but I don't know if this is general.

It would be better to add "./" to the beginning of the filename, just
in case rm doesn't understand "--".

> In general the filename strings out to be marked as not to be
> interpreted at the underlying shell level.

The shell isn't involved in this problem.  It's all in rm's argument
parsing.


paul