Little late to this thread, that sounds like annoying default behaviour and more of this same mentality that breaking backwards compatibility is OK, it's really not at all. Really it should be the other way, set -N to use the new wrapping. But hey why not right, systemd does this so we should too.</sarcasm>

Cheers,

chillfan

On Tuesday, February 16, 2016 2:07 PM, Aldemir Akpinar <aldemir.akpinar@???> wrote:
> There's a recent discussion on the coreutils mailing list, where some
> people complained about the default ls output with latest release. 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.
>
> Here's a discussion with the response from the maintainer as well:
>
> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/258679/why-is-ls-suddenly-surrounding-items-with-spaces-in-single-quotes
>
> When this version hits the distributions, it will break many scripts. So
> why change the default behaviour?
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