Re: verbose mode of RM

[Eric Blake]

> I don't know if this is a bug or not, more of an annoyance really.  When 
> one does a verbose 'rm', ie, 'rm -fv *.zip' they'll see this output:

This is intentional.  If you were to use a console that displayed unicode,
and a locale that supports unicode encodings, then you would see better
quote characters.  But in the default C locale, the best we can do for
a visually distinct left and right quote is ` and ', as specified in the
GNU Coding Standards:
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Quote-Characters

> This manual documents version 5.2.1 of the GNU core utilities,
> including the standard programs for text and file manipulation.

Consider upgrading.  The latest stable version is 5.96:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils-announce/2006-05/msg00001.html

-- 
Eric Blake