Hello, On Tue, Jan 02 2018, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> The output of ls on a terminal has never, in general, been an accurate > reflection of the contents of a directory. Consider that filenames > can contain *any* byte value other than '\0' or '/', so including > carriage return, newline, backspace and escape characters. > > ls also uses multiple columns by default, but without quoting you > can't generally tell where the columns are, e.g. is: > > aa ba ca ab bb cb > > a list of 6 two-letter filenames, or 2 filenames with spaces in, or > something else again? More points here: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs > Be careful what you wish for. But I think this will revert the recent > change: > > alias ls='ls --literal' Thank you for this tip. -- Sean Whitton
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