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...

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Show threadAllister Banks
.@siracusa Reading the coreutils devs explanation (that has to be a tough call to go ahead and implement) it seems… pretty reasonable (to disagree about) since it’s intended not to harm script behavior and wants to make things ‘safer’/more predictable for less savvy users copying and pasting
(I appreciate the heads up, the devtools team people at work install all the gnu versions on macs via homebrew so it could lead to uncertainty and debatable effort on patching aliases)
Jan 23, 2023 at 3:23amWeb
Show threadAlexJan 23, 2023
@Arubdesu @siracusa yes, this. I was annoyed initially because things changed and I was used to the other way. But the reasoning absolutely makes sense.
Show threadAllister BanksJan 23, 2023
@vnkr I’m more than willing to appreciate and gauge the impact/cost of cognitive switching, but being an open source booster (especially of maintainers) I also try to take the tact that actual action/change is rare and severely difficult and couldn’t have been approached lightly, so they earn just as much empathy since they’re outnumbered 😅😬