From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@NexGo.DE>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: strange behaviour of 'ls'
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 08:46:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20160407T103557-928@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001d1909e$da5b8b00$8f12a100$@talktalk.net>
Simon Bradley <simon-bradley <at> talktalk.net> writes:
> I have just noticed that the program 'ls' has started to put quotes around
> some entries in the listing when I use it
> That are not really present around the actual files / directories.
>
> This is hugely annoying and I do not want this behaviour. I much prefer
> to have ls perform as expected.
See the documentation for ls, in particular the -N, -b and --quote-style
options as well as the environment variable QUOTING_STYLE and any aliases
you might have defined when invoking ls.
> This MUST be a bug as it interferes with my other scripts which
> now do not work correctly.
You might want to check if it's not your scripts that are buggy.
Regards,
Achim.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-07 8:46 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 [this message]
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
2016-04-08 21:22 ` Thomas Wolff
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