Re: strange behaviour of 'ls'

2016-04-08 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 08.04.2016 um 20:52 schrieb Achim Gratz: 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 nuisanc

Re: strange behaviour of 'ls'

2016-04-08 Thread Eric Blake
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

Re: strange behaviour of 'ls'

2016-04-08 Thread Achim Gratz
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, p

Re: strange behaviour of 'ls'

2016-04-08 Thread Thomas Wolff
On 07.04.2016 13:11, Andrew Schulman wrote: 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. The default quoting style in ls recently changed upstream, and then

Re: strange behaviour of 'ls'

2016-04-07 Thread Andrew Schulman
> 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. The default quoting style in ls recently changed upstream, and then made its way into Cygwin. See https://

Re: strange behaviour of 'ls'

2016-04-07 Thread Achim Gratz
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 pr

strange behaviour of 'ls'

2016-04-07 Thread Simon Bradley
Hello, 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.