Subject: Re: bug#24225: ls doesn't quote newlines with -Q properly

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 10:04:46 +0100

On 14/08/16 18:13, E. Choroba wrote:
> Filename containing a newline is not listed in a way reusable by shell 
> regardless of the --quoting-style:

There were many cases where the output from ls was unusable.
This was fixed since coreutils-8.25 where the new 'shell-escape'
quoting style was introduced, and in fact is used by default.

  $ ls a?b --quoting-style='shell-escape'
  'a'$'\n''b'

thanks,
Pádraig