Hi, after updating to Debian buster I had the impression that my eyes are failing on me. This posting pretty much summarizes my opinion:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2016-02/msg00001.html especially the first paragraph: On 02/01/16 07:17 Harald Dunkel wrote: > On 02/01/16 17:07, Pádraig Brady wrote: > > > The reasons we changed the default was: > > > > - It only happens when outputting to terminals > > This means if you use "ls -1 | somescript" the script will > not see the quoting style. Don't you think that this is > inconsistent, not to mention that a script would benefit > much more from this quoting style than a human? I feel that this upstream change is a misuse of power by three coreutils developers and I vote for reverting to the old default of "literal". Cheers, Arvid Requate
