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On Tue, 03 May 2016, Daniel Quinn wrote: |
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> Some time ago after an update ls started returning output that looked like |
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> this: |
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> 8hOk25T.jpg 'Janeway Wallpaper-iPhone.png' |
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> 'Screenshot from 2016-04-06 16-15-15.png' microsoft.png |
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> 'Away mission Wallpaper-iPhone.png' 'Screenshot from 2016-03-18 14-29-06.png' |
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> 'Screenshot from 2016-04-07 11-29-02.png' gcal.png |
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> Note that some of the files have a single quote (‘) surrounding them, and |
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> others don’t. I understand that this makes things easier to do stuff like |
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> for f in $(ls /path/to/whatever); do something; fi |
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> But since I do that a lot less than I just do this: |
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> ls -l |
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> I’d like to revert to the old way so my eye isn’t jumping left & right all |
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> the time. |
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> I see that I can just write an alias: |
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> alias ls="ls --quoting-style=literal" |
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> But I’d hate to do that if the default is “literal” and there’s some |
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> config installed somewhere that’s changing this. Does anyone have some |
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> information regarding whether this is a new default upstream or if a |
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> Gentoo package was somehow modified to do this? |
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Yes, the quoting is upstream behavior since the last few versions of |
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coreutils. Anyway, if you mind it, keep it as an alias, it doesn't get |
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in the way :) |
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