Subject: bug#31353: closed (Re: bug#31353: ls unexpectedly quoting filenames)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 20:31:02 +0000

Your bug report

#31353: ls-quotes: ls unexpectedly quoting filenames

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

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Subject: Re: bug#31353: ls unexpectedly quoting filenames
From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
To: billy noah <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 13:30:02 -0700
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hello,

On 2018-05-02 8:38 p.m., billy noah wrote:
> In a clean installation of Ubuntu 18.04 suddenly ls has defaulted to
> quoting filenames with tilde ~, spaces and other characters which may
> require escaping.  Some extended discussion can be found here:
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/258679/why-is-ls-suddenly-wrapping-items-with-spaces-in-single-quotes
> 

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: ls unexpectedly quoting filenames
From: billy noah <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 22:38:03 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

In a clean installation of Ubuntu 18.04 suddenly ls has defaulted to
quoting filenames with tilde ~, spaces and other characters which may
require escaping.  Some extended discussion can be found here:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/258679/why-is-ls-suddenly-wrapping-items-with-spaces-in-single-quotes

Please revert this to the decades old standard behaviour.  No one seems to
like this new behaviour and it has only led to mass confusion.  Having the
new quoted style as an option would be fine but it should not be the
default.  Please and thank you.

- Billy Noah