Merge pull request #8791 from dekuu5/stat/fix-symlink-behavior

stat: fix %N symlink to be single quote instead of double quote

src/uu/stat/src/stat.rs

@@ -439,7 +439,10 @@ fn quote_file_name(file_name: &str, quoting_style: &QuotingStyle) -> String {
             let escaped = file_name.replace('\'', r"\'");
             format!("'{escaped}'")
         }
-        QuotingStyle::ShellEscapeAlways => format!("\"{file_name}\""),
+        QuotingStyle::ShellEscapeAlways => {
+            let quote = if file_name.contains('\'') { '"' } else { '\'' };
+            format!("{quote}{file_name}{quote}")
+        }
         QuotingStyle::Quote => file_name.to_string(),
     }
 }
@@ -1378,7 +1381,7 @@ fn pretty_time(meta: &Metadata, md_time_field: MetadataTimeField) -> String {
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
-    use crate::{pad_and_print_bytes, print_padding};
+    use crate::{pad_and_print_bytes, print_padding, quote_file_name};
 
     use super::{Flags, Precision, ScanUtil, Stater, Token, group_num, precision_trunc};
 
@@ -1529,4 +1532,19 @@ mod tests {
         print_padding(&mut buffer, 5).unwrap();
         assert_eq!(&buffer, b"     ");
     }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_quote_file_name() {
+        let file_name = "nice' file";
+        assert_eq!(
+            quote_file_name(file_name, &crate::QuotingStyle::ShellEscapeAlways),
+            "\"nice' file\""
+        );
+
+        let file_name = "nice\" file";
+        assert_eq!(
+            quote_file_name(file_name, &crate::QuotingStyle::ShellEscapeAlways),
+            "\'nice\" file\'"
+        );
+    }
 }

tests/by-util/test_stat.rs

@@ -435,6 +435,13 @@ fn test_quoting_style_locale() {
         .args(&["-c", "%N", "'"])
         .succeeds()
         .stdout_only("\"'\"\n");
+
+    // testing file having "
+    at.touch("\"");
+    ts.ucmd()
+        .args(&["-c", "%N", "\""])
+        .succeeds()
+        .stdout_only("\'\"\'\n");
 }
 
 #[test]