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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 made its way
> into Cygwin.  See https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-03/msg00082.html.
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.

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?

Thomas


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