Re: Regarding quoting in ls

[Assaf Gordon]

Hello,

On 2018-12-23 2:33 p.m., Andrew McCollum wrote:
> I have been using gnu software for 20 years. I have been brought so much
> happiness by being able to use free software on my computer to create art
> that can be shared with anyone without restriction. Thank you so much for
> your work on this, I appreciate it very greatly. I have donated before to
> the foundation and will likely do so again in the future.

Thank you for the support and the kind words.

> Respectfully, I do not like the quoted output from ls by default.
[...]

We've summarized lots of information relating to the quotes change
(that's been in place since 2016), here:

   https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/quotes.html

It also includes several suggestions on how to change the defaults
to a quoting style that you prefer.

regards,
 - assaf