GNU bug report logs - #25388
ls-quotes: kills existing scripts reading "ls" -1 as input

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>

Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 03:53:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 25388 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25388: Bug in ls, kills existing scripts reading "ls" -1 as input
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 21:25:23 -0800

L A Walsh wrote:

>     Having 'ls' show different output through a pager
> than it does when scrolling off the screen is not a standard
> feature

Sure it is. 'ls' has done that since then 1980s. 'ls' shows multicolumn output 
when the output is a tty, and single-column output when piped into a pager.
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