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Re: ls output changes considered unacceptable
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: ls output changes considered unacceptable |
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Tue, 15 Nov 2016 19:18:48 +0000 |
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On 18/02/16 09:17, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 17/02/16 17:46, Michael Stone wrote:
>> [new quoting style is] ambiguous. It isn't possible to tell from the output
>> whether you're looking at a really weird filename or something that's been
>> escaped.
>> Recall the earlier point about the inability to configure a heterogenous
>> environment consistently, and the lack of visual indication of the
>> current QUOTING_STYLE.
>
> I agree with this.
> An improvement suggested by someone else, would improve both the ambiguity
> and the small alignment issue, by adding an extra space to ls -l output
> if any names are quoted. That would also give a better indication that
> ls was adding the quotes. I.E.:
>
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 padraig padraig 580 Dec 14 04:01 blah_blah
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 padraig padraig 580 Dec 14 04:01 'blah blah'
Attached is a patch to implement the above alignment tweaks.
cheers,
Pádraig
ls-quote-align.patch
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