Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> writes: >> Thanks for the hint with QUOTING_STYLE. However, it doesn't work for me: >> >> # env QUOTING_STYLE=escape /usr/bin/stat -c %N /tmp/foo* >> '/tmp/foo'$'\t''bar' > > Right, stat currently hard codes the "shell" style. > It probably makes sense to have this configurable. > I'll do that for the next release.
Thanks! In general I don't care whether you implement it via environment variable or command parameter. The environment variable has the advantage, that the call of stat would be backwards compatible. > thanks, > Pádraig. Best regards, Michael.