Ok I stand corrected about no one liking it. But I just read upwards of 100 comments on that linked SO question and I don't recall a single person speaking up in favor of the new behaviour. While you may have a point about security issues, the new default should probably be a user selectable option, not the default. Have you conducted any kind of poll to determine what the vast majority of users prefer? Can you please illustrate a scenario where non-quoted filenames would be a security issue?

On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 2:01 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

billy noah wrote:

No one seems to
like this new behaviour

I like the new behavior. The old behavior had security problems, since file names with unusual characters could confuse users into thinking that the file system was X when it really was Y. The new behavior avoids these problems, and so is safer and more predictable. You can resurrect the old behavior, if you like, by using a shell script called 'ls' that invokes /usr/bin/ls with the settings you prefer. However, the default settings should be safe, not risky.