Bug 151496

Summary:	coreutils outdated - here "stat" does not correctly recognize '\n' in format string
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Torsten Finke <fi>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Andreas Schwab <schwab>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	suse-beta
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Description Torsten Finke 2006-02-16 14:02:58 UTC

OpenSuSE 10.0 uses coreutils 5.3.0. 

The stat program contained in that version could not properly recognize format strings. Eg: running 

  stat -c '%x\n'

the trailing newline is ignored. 

Also on http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils that version could not be found. 

A more recent version (eg 5.94) should be used.

Comment 1 Andreas Schwab 2006-02-20 15:21:08 UTC

There are no backslash escapes in -c.

Comment 2 Torsten Finke 2006-02-20 18:13:39 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> There are no backslash escapes in -c.
> that is right, but:
- in coreutils version 5.3.0 (as used in OpenSuSE 10.0) stat does not 
  output a newline after each line formatted by option -c. As of version 5.94
  it does. (A missing newline at the end of output is ugly - try it)
- in 5.94 stat has an extra option "--printf" that does interpret backslash 
  escapes.