On 02/16/2016 08:58 AM, Ruediger Meier wrote:
Terminal output should be human readable not machine readable.
Sure, but under the old way of doing things, terminal output *wasn't*
human-readable. For example:
$ ls
a?b a?b axb c d e
$ rm a?b c d
rm: cannot remove 'd': No such file or directory
$ ls
d e
Here's the new behavior with the same set of files:
$ ls
'a?b' 'a'$'\n''b' axb c 'd e'
$ rm 'a?b' c 'd e'
$ ls
'a'$'\n''b' axb
The new behavior is much more readable and understandable. Of course
this is a contrived example (created via:
touch 'a
b' 'a?b' axb c 'd e'
), but it's similar to situations that I run into all the time when
teaching newbies. New users should be better off with the new approach,
in ordinary interactive use.
I didn't comment on the original change, because I thought it was a
no-brainer. Yes, there is a backward-compatibility issue, but users
worried about compatibility should be using portable POSIX file names
anyway, and 'ls' hasn't changed its behavior with portable file names.
