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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#24926: ls output has been made ugly |
Date: | Fri, 11 Nov 2016 10:26:15 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 |
Michael Schwager wrote:
Don't you think I can see the spaces in my filenames?
Not in general, no. For example: $ ls --quoting-style=literal a b c $ ls 'a b' cThat being said, perhaps 'ls' could quote less aggressively. If 'ls' always arranges for at least two spaces between file names, for example, 'ls' doesn't need to quote a name merely because it contains a space surrounded by non-whitespace characters. Come to think of it, 'ls -l' need not quote file names containing spaces at all.
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