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: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Bug in ls, kills existing scripts reading "ls" -1 as input
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2017 19:52:22 -0800

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.
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 161 days ago.

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