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ls-quotes: ls output has been made ugly

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Message #17 received at 24926 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: "L. A. Walsh" <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>, Michael Schwager <mike <at> schwager.com>,
 Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 24926 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24926: ls output has been made ugly
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 13:50:12 -0600

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On 11/11/2016 01:40 PM, L. A. Walsh wrote:

>> $ ls --quoting-style=literal
>> a  b  c
> ----
>    You must have a strange version of something -- that's not
> what I see:
> 
>>  touch 'a b' c

That's your problem.  Paul did:

$ touch 'a  b' c

with two spaces, not one.

> Where (or under what conditions)
> do you see the "a, b and c" being
> spaced apart equally?

When you intentionally create the spacing between a and b to match the
spacing between a*b and c.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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