From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: strange behaviour of 'ls'
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 20:36:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57081627.4030508@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871t6gx7ae.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
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On 04/08/2016 12:52 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Thomas Wolff writes:
>> Like for grep which now barfs out when a character isn’t recognized in
>> the current encoding (and grep doesn’t even provide an environment
>> variable to override this mis-feature), these assumedly-modern
>> upstream changes are a nuisance.
>
> You are barking up the wrng tree, please take that upstream.
>
>> For ls at least, it can be fixed with the environment variable
>> QUOTING_STYLE but that isn’t even mentioned in the manual page!%§↯
>> – Poor old Unix tradition fades away.
>>
>> What about adding
>> export QUOTING_STYLE=literal
>> to /etc/profile as a fix?
>
> No, but you're free to do whatever you wish in /etc/profile.d (or lobby
> the coreutils maintiner to provide it with the package, although I'd
> suggest that it shouldn't get installed by default).
If upstream makes it easy to install such an example profile, I'll
likewise make it easy to install in cygwin. Otherwise, I don't see any
reason to go out of my way to make cygwin diverge from upstream.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-08 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-07 7:27 Simon Bradley
2016-04-07 8:46 ` Achim Gratz
2016-04-07 11:12 ` Andrew Schulman
2016-04-08 9:50 ` Thomas Wolff
2016-04-08 18:52 ` Achim Gratz
2016-04-08 20:36 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2016-04-08 21:22 ` Thomas Wolff
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