Vincent Lefevre wrote:
I get the following with ls (GNU coreutils) 8.30.
zira% touch a=b a=b\&c
zira% ls a=b*
'a=b' 'a=b&c'
zira% ls -b a=b*
a=b a=b&c
zira% ls -F a=b*
'a=b' 'a=b&c'
zira% ls -bF a=b*
a\=b a\=b&c
AFAIK, the = character is not a shell metacharacter (except with zsh
but only in the first position), thus does not need to be quoted.
'=' is a shell metacharacter after 'set -k' in Bash.
Moreover, while & is not a metacharacter, it is a special character
that should be quoted for practical reasons.
As far as I can see '&' is being quoted correctly in the above examples. -b
means to quote for C strings, not for the shell. If you want to quote for the
shell, try --quoting-style='shell-escape'.
