paul@thinkpad:/tmp/test$ touch foo bar baz paul@thinkpad:/tmp/test$ touch "touch and go" paul@thinkpad:/tmp/test$ ls -l total 0 -rw-rw-r--. 1 paul paul 0 Jun 6 11:48 bar -rw-rw-r--. 1 paul paul 0 Jun 6 11:48 baz -rw-rw-r--. 1 paul paul 0 Jun 6 11:48 foo -rw-rw-r--. 1 paul paul 0 Jun 6 11:49 'touch and go' This is very misleading, as it appears the filename actually contains single quotes. And I tried and failed to fix it using \ Oddly enough, ls > out does not show this behaviour, so I suspect this is some kind of "feature". I would be in favour of disabling this feature, Paul -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx