John SiracusaJan 23, 2023
I discovered this change today while playing with a “modern” Linux install, and I’m unreasonably upset about it. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/258679/why-is-ls-suddenly-wrapping-items-with-spaces-in-single-quotes
Why is 'ls' suddenly wrapping items with spaces in single quotes?

I just noticed that on one of my machines (running Debian Sid) whenever I type ls any file name with spaces has single quotes surrounding it. I immediately checked my aliases, only to find them int...

Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
Show threadJason Petersen (he)
@siracusa (though what I’d like is the opposite, better machine output. Would be nice for everything to support -0 like e.g. xargs does)
Jan 23, 2023 at 3:20amWeb
Show threadyele Jan 23, 2023
@jason @siracusa one should use `find` instead of `ls` for scripting
Show threadJason Petersen (he)Jan 23, 2023
@pingiun @siracusa right, because it has a -0 option