bug#25078: ls 8.26: discrepancy between `ls' and `ls -1' in the alignment of quoted and nonquoted items

[Assaf Gordon]

Hello,

On 2016-11-30 7:12 p.m., Zhiming Wang wrote:
> On Nov 30, 2016, at 8:41 PM, Paul Vint <address@hidden> wrote:
> > The alignment change is helpful, but I do have an argument against doing the
> > same in the -1 case: It breaks something many of us have done in scripts.
>
> It breaks nothing. Quoting and alignment by default only happens when stdout is
> a tty. Also, ls prints one entry per line when stdout is not a tty; you don't
> even need -1.

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 address@hidden .

regards,
 - assaf