URL:
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Summary: Tab character replaced by question mark ("?") when
locate outputs to tty
Project: findutils
Submitted by: yuvals
Submitted on: Wed 21 Sep 2016 11:13:23 AM GMT
Category: locate
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Wrong result
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Name:
Originator Email:
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release: 4.6.0
Fixed Release: None
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Details:
Version: 4.6.0
What I am trying to do:
I added size information after a tab character at the end of each locatedb
entry (this allows me to use locate to find files by size).
The exact command lines I was using: (up to absolute paths)
$ mkdir test-locatedb && cd test-locatedb
$ touch a b c d e f g
$ du -a | awk -v 'OFS=\t' '{print $2,$1}' | /path/to/frcode > test.locatedb
$ /path/to/locate --database=test.locatedb a
./test.locatedb?1
./a?1
$ locate --database=test.locatedb a | cat
./a 1
./test.locatedb 1
$ /path/to/locate --version
locate (GNU findutils) 4.6.0
...
What I expected to happen:
I expect the tab character to be displayed when `locate` outputs results to
the terminal.
What did happen:
`locate` replaces tabs with question marks ("?")
More information:
Output piped via `cat` should be identical to direct terminal output.
Alternatively, the behavior should be documented in the `man` page.
Relevant code:
* qmark.c
<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/tree/lib/qmark.c?h=v4.6.0&id=992a6b62ab8061531dc0ad40325b8e4c222fce66>
* printquoted.c
<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/tree/lib/printquoted.c?h=v4.6.0&id=992a6b62ab8061531dc0ad40325b8e4c222fce66>
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