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: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: billy noah <billynoah <at> gmail.com>, 31353-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31353: ls unexpectedly quoting filenames
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 13:30:02 -0700

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 coreutils <at> gnu.org .

regards,
 - assaf
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