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> On coreutils 8.25 ls will wrap filenames with quotes if it includes
> whitespace.
>
> And when people protest, the answers are usual arguments; it just happens
> on the console output, or just add -N to your aliases etc. etc.
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> When this version hits the distributions, it will break many scripts.
Hmm ... why do you think so?
BTW: 'Console' and 'terminal' are two rather different things.