mqu...@neosmart.net writes: > In particular, `ls` output (both in regular and `-l` modes) wraps in > single quotes the names of files that contain special characters (or, at > least, a parenthesis), meaning its output is not an accurate reflection > of the actual contents of the directory.
This was an upstream change in coreutils 8.25, not something specific to Debian: ls now quotes file names unambiguously and appropriate for use in a shell, when outputting to a terminal. Whatever one's opinion of the merits of that upstream change, I think it's unlikely Debian will want to diverge from upstream behavior for a package as central as coreutils and a command as central as ls. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
