Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:28:48 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, olli@lurza.secnetix.de Subject: Re: misc/113336: ftpd doesn't handle filenames which contain curly ?brackets Message-ID: <466548F0.2000807@cran.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <200706041709.l54H92Mv091047@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200706041709.l54H92Mv091047@lurza.secnetix.de>
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Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Bruce Cran wrote:
> > When trying to fetch files from a server running the ftpd from
> > /usr/libexec, ftpd apparently removes curly brackets from filenames
> > before trying to read them from the filesystem.
>
> ftpd performs filename globbing, i.e. it interprets
> the wildcards "?", "*" and "[...]", and additionally
> it expands csh-like brace expressions.
>
> In other words: What you see is expected behaviour,
> not a bug. Try prepending a backslash in front of
> the braces, i.e.: get guid_\{1234567890\}_file.txt
>
> (I haven't tested this ... It might be possible that
> the FTP client removes one level of backslashes, so
> in that case you need to write two backslashes each.)
>
> Best regards
> Oliver
>
Thanks, it works with FreeBSD's FTP client when I use two backslashes.
Regards,
Bruce
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