Hello, On 2018-05-02 8:38 p.m., billy noah wrote:
In a clean installation of Ubuntu 18.04 suddenly ls has defaulted to quoting filenames with tilde ~, spaces and other characters which may require escaping. Some extended discussion can be found here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/258679/why-is-ls-suddenly-wrapping-items-with-spaces-in-single-quotes
We created a summary of common issues and FAQs regarding the quoting change in ls(1): https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/quotes.html If there is an issue that is not addressed there, please send an email to coreut...@gnu.org . regards, - assaf