Subject: bug#25388: Bug in ls, kills existing scripts reading "ls" -1 as input

From: L A Walsh <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 12:37:00 -0800

How do you reopen a bug that was closed before I even replied?

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> tag 25388 notabug
> close 25388
> stop
> 
> On 09/01/17 18:48, L A Walsh wrote:
>> ls alias on my machines:
>> alias ls='ls -CF --show-control-chars --color=always'
> 
> Note a caveat of the above is that it changes the display width
> depending on whether you pipe to more or not.
> You could avoid that by changing the alias to:
> 
>   alias ls='COLUMNS=$COLUMNS ls -CF --show-control-chars --color'
> 
> Also you can stick a -N option in that alias to disable the default quoting.
> 
> cheers,
> Pádraig.
>