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: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>, 25388 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25388: Bug in ls, kills existing scripts reading "ls" -1 as input
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 20:10:30 +0000

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.
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