On 02/07/2018 10:12 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote:
I wonder who is supposed to benefit from this change? For a human eye these constructs are simply unrecognizable, unless you look*very* closely.
There's no change for directories without special file names: $ \ls -log total 164 drwxr-xr-x 2 4096 Feb 5 20:23 d drwxr-xr-x 2 155648 Jan 28 19:22 d1 -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Feb 8 00:28 file drwxr-xr-x 2 4096 Jan 28 19:22 mnt ... but once you introduce such a file it will be recognized immediately: $ touch 'a b' $ \ls -log total 164 -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Feb 8 00:29 'a b' drwxr-xr-x 2 4096 Feb 5 20:23 d drwxr-xr-x 2 155648 Jan 28 19:22 d1 -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Feb 8 00:28 file drwxr-xr-x 2 4096 Jan 28 19:22 mnt This is nice IMO. Your example was quite extreme, and therefore it's clear that the listing would be hard to read in any style of ls output; but: the new one can at least be used for copy/paste ... without any ambiguity. Before, there was a certain chance to affect unwanted files. Have a nice day, Berny
