On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 05:11:43PM +1000, Magnon Damant wrote: > I noticed a bug where when I open a Time Machine Backup folder (called .HFS+ > Private Directory Data'$'\r) the terminal cursor position gets messed up.
"Open" is a bit ambiguous here.... > prompt [<user>@<hostname> > <folder>]$ gets messed up > > I guess the '$'\r name ending is causes the issue [maybe not escaped > properly?]. > Prepended prompt should display [something like]: > [magnon@magnon-desktop .HFS+ Private Directory Data^M]$ So, by "open", you mean "cd into". wooledg:~$ mkdir $'crtest\r' wooledg:~$ cd crtest^M/ $ oledg:~/crtest Line 2 was generated by tab completion, not by typing caret-shift-M. The carriage return in the directory name is simply being printed literally to the terminal by the prompt. It's not escaped, which is why it looks like this. I'm not sure I'd call this a bug -- more of a feature request, for bash to present control characters in directory names (or partial names), that are expanded from PS1, in an escaped form. Meanwhile, I strongly advise you to rename this directory so that it doesn't end with a carriage return. This won't be the only problem it causes you.
