On 02/02/16 13:19, Jamie Heilman wrote: > This behavior needs to be reverted. There are too many assumptions > being made, the quoting used is shell-specific, and not universally > supported. For example, consider a file who's name contains a tab, > like "a<tab>b". > > $ ls > 'a'$'\t''b' > > OK, so that syntax is supported by bash and zsh, so if you're using > one of those shells, maybe you know what it means, and you can cut and > paste that and make use of it, but in csh or dash, it doesn't mean the > same thing.
$'...' is in the process of being POSIX standardized. Even when the shell doesn't support it directly yet, surely \t is better than ?
