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

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 20:30:03 +0000

Your bug report

#25388: ls-quotes: kills existing scripts reading "ls" -1 as input

which was filed against the coreutils package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#25388: Bug in ls, kills existing scripts reading "ls" -1 as input
From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
To: L A Walsh <[email-masked]>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 13:29:08 -0700
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hello,

>>> 'ls' did not recently add any more cases where tty output differs from
>>> non-tty output when all other things are equal in the default state.
>>> All that changed was that tty output is formatted differently than it
>>> has been in the past.
>> ----

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

Subject: Bug in ls, kills existing scripts reading "ls" -1 as input
From: L A Walsh <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2017 19:52:22 -0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

The new ls doesn't maintain backwards compatibility.
The default options now add extraneous quotes to
some filenames.

Anyplace one uses 'ls -1' to read 1 file/line
now breaks.

This is a regression as it breaks existing
scripts and behavior.