"Delete tagged files if a copy exists in the other directory" doesn't work if names of the files or folders contains space

Bug #1094324 reported by Mantas Kriaučiūnas
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Midnight Commander
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mc (Baltix)
Confirmed
Medium
Mantas Kriaučiūnas
mc (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Yury V. Zaytsev

Bug Description

Midnight commander has nice feature - you can mark some file in one side and MC can compare these files with identically named files in other side and remove them if files are identical. This function can be started from the "User menu" (key F2) and is named"
"D Delete tagged files if a copy exists in the other directory"
But "Delete tagged files if a copy exists in the other directory" doesn't work if names of the files or folders contains space :(
Problem is in /etc/mc/mc.menu - I'm attaching a patch against mc.menu, which fixes this problem - I've tested with mc from Ubuntu 12.04 and newer :)

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Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) wrote :
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Yury V. Zaytsev (zyv) wrote :

Thanks for the report, I have created a new patch and a reported the bug upstream. Please try to go upstream in the future if possible, this tracker is not used by upstream developers and there are no dedicated mc package maintainers in Ubuntu.

Changed in mc (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Yury V. Zaytsev (zyv)
Changed in mc:
status: Unknown → New
Changed in mc:
status: New → Confirmed
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Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) wrote :

According to upstream changes at http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2947 bug is fixed and will be included into mc version 4.8.8

comment:4 Changed 3 hours ago by andrew_b
    Status changed from accepted to testing
    Votes for changeset changed from andrew_b slavazanko to committed-master
    Resolution set to fixed
    Branch state changed from approved to merged
Merged to master: [be2883dc86d01fa54003ec75b0a1fc9ed93c9358].

comment:5 Changed 3 hours ago by andrew_b
    Status changed from testing to closed

Yury V. Zaytsev, could you confirm that "Delete tagged files if a copy exists in the other directory" will work in mc 4.8.8 even
 if names of the files or folders contains space?
And maybe you know if mc version 4.8.8 will be packaged in Debian and/or Ubuntu?

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Yury V. Zaytsev (zyv) wrote :

Hi Mantas,

I pushed upstream a different patch from what you suggested, but I believe it should still work. Yes, I believe it will make it in 4.8.8. I don't know when it will get packaged, but I believe that it's not going to be backported to the currently shipping versions of Ubuntu.

--Yury.

Changed in mc:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) wrote :

Hi Yury,

Yury V. Zaytsev (zyv) wrote on 2013-03-05:
> I pushed upstream a different patch from what you suggested, but I believe it should still work.

Your patch doesn't fix the problem - I'm attaching correct patch against mc.menu from mc 4.8.8 which fixes identical files deletion when folders and/or files names contains spaces.
Problem in your patch was quoted %D - see this line in your patch:
  if [ -f "%D/$i" ]; then
because of quoted %D deletion doesn't work: mc doesn't even find identical files - I get a message "FILENAME has no copy in /tmp/folder\ with\ space: NOT deleted." in terminal.
Deletion works correctly when %D isn't quoted, only $i is quoted:
  if [ -f %D/"$i" ]; then

I hope you understand why your patch doesn't work and you will forward my patch to mc upstream ;)

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Yury V. Zaytsev (zyv) wrote :

Actually no, I don't understand it, but I will try to have a look.

Changed in mc (Baltix):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)
Changed in mc (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Confirmed
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Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) wrote :

Hi Yury,

It seems http://midnight-commander.org is dead or at least unreachable from my country (Lithuania) :(

Could you forward corrected patch mc.menu.folders-and-files-with-spaces-deletion-fix-4.8.8.patch from https://launchpad.net/mc/+bug/1094324 to mc upstream ?

Yury V. Zaytsev (zyv) wrote on 2013-04-05:
> I don't understand it, but I will try to have a look.

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Yury V. Zaytsev (zyv) wrote :

Hi ,

Sadly, it's not accessible from anywhere at all, because our old server died. A new machine is now being installed to replace the old one.

Z.

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Graham Inggs (ginggs) wrote :

Fix released in mc 3:4.8.11-1 in Trusty.

Changed in mc (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) wrote :

this mc problem isn't fixed - attached correct patch against mc.menu from mc 4.8.8 which fixes identical files deletion when folders and/or files names contains spaces, see comment #6

Problem in current mc is quoted %D - see this line in mc.menu:
  if [ -f "%D/$i" ]; then
because of quoted %D deletion doesn't work: mc doesn't even find identical files - I get a message "FILENAME has no copy in /tmp/folder\ with\ space: NOT deleted." in terminal.
Deletion works correctly when %D isn't quoted, only $i is quoted:
  if [ -f %D/"$i" ]; then

Changed in mc (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Released → Confirmed
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Yury V. Zaytsev (zyv) wrote :

How about SUM2="`sum \"%D/$i\"`" ? Should %D remain quoted there? Anyways, I don't quite understand why %D shouldn't be quoted.

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Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) wrote :

Hi,

Yury V. Zaytsev (zyv) wrote on 2015-07-04: #12
> How about SUM2="`sum \"%D/$i\"`" ?
> Should %D remain quoted there?

No, %D shouldn't be quoted at all in mc.menu, see my patch, attached to the bugreport:

https://launchpadlibrarian.net/136265988/mc.menu.folders-and-files-with-spaces-deletion-fix-4.8.8.patch

Yury, please apply this patch to the upstream mc.menu - there are only 2 lines changed.

> Anyways, I don't quite understand why %D shouldn't be quoted.
I also don't understand why problem disappears only when %D *isn't* quoted and $i *is* quoted, but I successfully use patched mc.menu since 2010 ;)

Changed in mc:
status: Fix Released → New
Changed in mc:
status: New → Confirmed
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Yury V. Zaytsev (zyv) wrote :

Hi Mantas,

I know it's hard to believe but we finally did it (again)! Could you please check the latest master to make sure we didn't screw it up again? If all is well, I would like to make a new release soon.

Many thanks!

Changed in mc:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Paul White (paulw2u) wrote :

Fixed in version 4.18.16
Ubuntu 18.04 has version 4.18.19 so closing.

Changed in mc (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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