Subject: Re: bug#31353: ls unexpectedly quoting filenames
From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
To: billy noah <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 13:30:02 -0700
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hello,

On 2018-05-02 8:38 p.m., billy noah wrote:
> In a clean installation of Ubuntu 18.04 suddenly ls has defaulted to
> quoting filenames with tilde ~, spaces and other characters which may
> require escaping.  Some extended discussion can be found here:
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/258679/why-is-ls-suddenly-wrapping-items-with-spaces-in-single-quotes
> 

We created a summary of common issues and FAQs
regarding the quoting change in ls(1):
   https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/quotes.html

If there is an issue that is not addressed there,
please send an email to [email-masked] .

regards,
  - assaf