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bug#33113: incorrect and inconsistent quoting in ls output


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#33113: incorrect and inconsistent quoting in ls output
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2018 13:11:33 -0700
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Vincent Lefevre wrote:
Now we could quote with -F only if these chars are at the end,
though I'm not sure that complexity is warranted.
In any case, this form of quoting incorrect with -b, as \= is invalid
in ISO C.

That's right, we need another way to escape classifier characters with -bF, since the current method is clearly wrong.

Let's use ""= instead, as it's valid ISO C. In other words, where we currently do this:

$ python -c "import socket as s; sock = s.socket(s.AF_UNIX); sock.bind('b')"
$ touch b= b=x
$ ls -bF
b=  b\=  b\=x

the last command should output this instead:

b=  b""=  b=x

This works because in ISO C "b""=" is equivalent to "b=". We should do this only with characters at the end, because it's not needed elsewhere and the "" is annoying.





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