So in ls I have [-Nbq] where -q would print ? instead of nongraphic characters, -b would do c-style escapes for nongraphic characters, and -N would pass them through literally. Simple, right?
But that's not what the gnu/dammit version does. -b and -q replace each other, and -N turns off -b. But -N does NOT turn off -q, only -b. Instead they added a the magic longopt --show-control-chars that does what you'd THINK -N does. This means touch $'hello \rworld'; ls -qN prints hello ?world with gnu/dammit ls, which is sad. Oh, and for extra fun, "man ls" doesn't mention it in my distro but ls has changed its default output style AGAIN to do --quoting-style=shell-escape by default when output is to a terminal, which A) does not seem to have a short option at all, B) is implemented in a PROFOUNDLY stupid manner. 1) The above comes out as 'hello '$'\r''world' which changes quote contexts THREE TIMES for no obvious reason, and even the somewhat awkward touch abc\'$'\r'def becomes the amazingly awkward 'abc'\'''$'\r''def 2) Ever filename that is NOT escaped winds up indented by one space, which is how I first noticed the Fresh Gnu Stupid. Anyway: I'm leaning towards leaving toybox -N doing what it's doing because random gnu thrashing du jour is just deeply sad, but I wanted to ping the list to see if anybody had strong opinions? Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list Toybox@lists.landley.net http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
