On 8/8/20 9:09 AM, David Thomas wrote:
If most people think things are a bad idea, why do them?
I don't see any real evidence that most people think the change is a bad idea. Although there have been complaints, that doesn't mean most people are complaining, or that most people are unhappy about the change.
In practice I've found the new behavior to be significantly safer. I too often have to deal with files with shell metacharacters in their names (people send me all sorts of weird stuff). The old 'ls' behavior was quite dangerous in that respect.
at first I was typing out the quotes to cd into them. Then I discovered it still worked to cd into them without typing the quotes
What file names were these, exactly? If 'ls' is overquoting, that's something we could fix without affecting safety.
