bug#42766: file names with spaces are quoted in the output from ls

2020-08-09 Thread Paul Eggert
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

bug#42766: file names with spaces are quoted in the output from ls

2020-08-08 Thread David Thomas
Hello, I noticed the other day when running ls in a terminal that some file names with spaces were quoted. I was quite confused, as I was sure they hadn’t been saved with quotes at the beginning and end of the file name. I’m not someone who often uses the terminal, but I know enough of what I