GNU bug report logs - #31353
ls-quotes: ls unexpectedly quoting filenames

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: billy noah <billynoah <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 02:51:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: billy noah <billynoah <at> gmail.com>
To: 31353 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31353: ls unexpectedly quoting filenames
Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 22:38:03 -0400

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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

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