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ls: incorrect quoting of "="

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
Cc: 33113 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33113: incorrect and inconsistent quoting in ls output
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 07:28:26 -0700

On 23/10/18 17:54, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 10/22/18 1:44 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>> On the behavior, there's still the issue concerning = and &.
> 
> Yes, you're right, there's no need to quote = with -b.

The reason \= is quoted with -bF is to distinguish socket
names that end in =. An edge case indeed, though the issue
is not particular to '=', but all of the classifier chars.

Now we could quote with -F only if these chars are at the end,
though I'm not sure that complexity is warranted.

cheers,
Pádraig

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