On 10/29/21 13:32, Joel Hansen wrote:
ls is incorrectly displaying single quotes around folders with spaces in them. This is confusing and unhelpful.
Opinions evidently differ on that point. That being said, here's an example where the quotes help and where your suggestion of using -N everywhere would introduce confusion.
$ ls -lN total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 eggert eggert 6 Oct 30 16:55 c -> a -> b lrwxrwxrwx 1 eggert eggert 1 Oct 30 16:56 c -> a -> b $ ls -l total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 eggert eggert 6 Oct 30 16:55 c -> 'a -> b' lrwxrwxrwx 1 eggert eggert 1 Oct 30 16:56 'c -> a' -> b
