From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25509 invoked by alias); 7 Apr 2016 08:46:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 25499 invoked by uid 89); 7 Apr 2016 08:46:52 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,FSL_HELO_BARE_IP_2,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=hugely, interferes, UD:talktalk.net, Bradley X-HELO: plane.gmane.org Received: from plane.gmane.org (HELO plane.gmane.org) (80.91.229.3) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 07 Apr 2016 08:46:42 +0000 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ao5aH-00027L-9o for cygwin@cygwin.com; Thu, 07 Apr 2016 10:46:37 +0200 Received: from 217.10.52.10 ([217.10.52.10]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 07 Apr 2016 10:46:37 +0200 Received: from Stromeko by 217.10.52.10 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 07 Apr 2016 10:46:37 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Achim Gratz Subject: Re: strange behaviour of 'ls' Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 08:46:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <000001d1909e$da5b8b00$8f12a100$@talktalk.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-04/txt/msg00133.txt.bz2 Simon Bradley 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. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple