Re: Imaginary single quotes in ls ?

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Are you using an alias like ls="ls --quoting-style=shell"?


On 06/06/2016 05:53 PM, Paul Wouters wrote:

paul@thinkpad:/tmp/test$ touch foo bar baz
paul@thinkpad:/tmp/test$ touch "touch and go"
paul@thinkpad:/tmp/test$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-rw-r--. 1 paul paul 0 Jun  6 11:48 bar
-rw-rw-r--. 1 paul paul 0 Jun  6 11:48 baz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 paul paul 0 Jun  6 11:48 foo
-rw-rw-r--. 1 paul paul 0 Jun  6 11:49 'touch and go'


This is very misleading, as it appears the filename actually contains
single quotes. And I tried and failed to fix it using \

Oddly enough, ls > out does not show this behaviour, so I suspect this is
some kind of "feature". I would be in favour of disabling this feature,

Paul
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