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. -- 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