Re: ls is broken, what's next cd?

[Harald Dunkel]

Hi Berny,

On 02/08/18 00:34, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 02/07/2018 10:12 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> > I wonder who is supposed to benefit from this change? For a
> > human eye these constructs are simply unrecognizable, unless
> > you look*very*  closely.
:
:
> This is nice IMO.
> Your example was quite extreme, and therefore it's clear that
> the listing would be hard to read in any style of ls output;
> but: the new one can at least be used for copy/paste  ... without
> any ambiguity.  Before, there was a certain chance to affect
> unwanted files.

If I got this correctly, then the folks to benefit from this change
are GUI users, using copy-and-paste. Is this an argument to affect
the command line users?

BTW, apparently the shell quoting-style in coreutils 8.26 (Stretch)
misses to properly quote iso8859 chars, e.g. German Umlaute. Sample:

% ls --quoting-style=shell -al /tmp/Qual*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 13 08:27 '/tmp/Qualit?tssicherung final'

Using copy-and-paste, how would you proceed in this case?

I don't want to argue against the usefulness of --quoting-style in
certain cases, but I don't see a reason to change the default yet.
Keep it simple.


Regards
Harri