On Sun, Aug 07, 2016 at 01:22:25PM -0400, Brian Nash wrote:
> I'm not sure on the specifics of the change, but for most scripted uses
> you would probably pass it the `-1` flag anyway.
>
> If it doesn't list one file per line anymore, that could be quite
> serious: we would need to use `dir` instead of `ls`!
> That's a whole extra keystroke!
>
> If the changes turn out to be serious, you might want to try
> suckless.org's version. (I believe it is called "sutils" and "putils", I
> can confirm that they work.)

No. The way you use ls in scripts is you don't.
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs