[gentoo-user] How to stop ls from quoting output

[Daniel Quinn]

Some time ago after an update |ls| started returning output that looked
like this:

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Note that some of the files have a single quote (‘) surrounding them,
and others don’t. I understand that this makes things easier to do stuff
like

|for f in $(ls /path/to/whatever); do something; fi |

But since I do that a lot less than I just do this:

|ls -l |

I’d like to revert to the old way so my eye isn’t jumping left & right
all the time.

I see that I can just write an alias:

|alias ls="ls --quoting-style=literal" |

But I’d hate to do that if the default is “literal” and there’s some
config installed somewhere that’s changing this. Does anyone have some
information regarding whether this is a new default upstream or if a
Gentoo package was somehow modified to do this?

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