i was surprised to see all the files in `ls` output indented by one space today. turns out that was because there was a file with a space in the name in that directory.
/tmp/x$ touch 'hello.txt' 'hello world.txt' /tmp/x$ ls hello.txt 'hello world.txt' /tmp/x$ ls -1 hello.txt 'hello world.txt' /tmp/x$ ls --quoting-style= ls: ambiguous argument ‘’ for ‘--quoting-style’ Valid arguments are: - ‘literal’ - ‘shell’ - ‘shell-always’ - ‘shell-escape’ - ‘shell-escape-always’ - ‘c’ - ‘c-maybe’ - ‘escape’ - ‘locale’ - ‘clocale’ Try 'ls --help' for more information. /tmp/x$ ls --quoting-style=literal hello.txt hello world.txt /tmp/x$ ls --quoting-style=shell hello.txt 'hello world.txt' /tmp/x$ ls --quoting-style=c "hello.txt" "hello world.txt" i'm not sure what the default corresponds to. presumably "shell", which ought to have been "shell-maybe" to match "c-maybe"? (or "c" should have been "c-always" and "c-maybe" should have been "c"? another defeat snatched from the jaws of victory by the FSF... i wonder when they'll add the option so i can get shell and c quoting for the help text, rather than these left/right quotes?) _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list Toybox@lists.landley.net http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
