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ls: incorrect quoting of "="

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From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
Cc: 33113 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Subject: bug#33113: incorrect and inconsistent quoting in ls output
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2018 21:48:08 -0600

Hello,

On 2018-10-28 2:11 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote:
> 
> That's right, we need another way to escape classifier characters with 
> -bF, since the current method is clearly wrong.
[...]
> This works because in ISO C "b""=" is equivalent to "b=". We should do 
> this only with characters at the end, because it's not needed elsewhere 
> and the "" is annoying.

Not sure if this is relevant,
but while going over old bugs I noticed this:

  Bug in 'ls -FQ': incorrectly quoted characters
  http://bugs.gnu.org/29832

Which reports incorrect quoting of "@" as "\@"
and also mentions "ls -b", and had a pending patch which was
never committed.

regards,
 -assaf

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