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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Message #44 received at 25388 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>,
 25388 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25388: Bug in ls, kills existing scripts reading "ls" -1
 as input
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 12:00:45 -0800


Eric Blake wrote:
> Good or not, it IS what happens, and we can't change it due to years of
> usage.
----
	You are coming into the middle of the discussion.
	I wasn't asking for a change to _that_ specific behavior.
	I'm against adding more/new behaviors that also change
output and do it by default.
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