bug#32653: single quotes suddenly appearing in ls displays

[Pádraig Brady]

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On 06/09/18 16:49, Ethan Furman wrote:
> I recently installed Linux Mint 18, and when I did an "ls -la" (aliased to 
> "la") on a directory with hundreds of folders 
> that are automatically created by a script, single-quote-marks started 
> showing up.  I spent three hours verifying that 
> my script wasn't at fault, and would have spent more had I not thought to 
> google the problem.
> 
> Please revert this change, and please please please do not make such changes 
> to the defaults in the future.

This has been discussed previously, so closing this.

The reasoning behind the change is summarized at:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/258691/37127
Reproducing here:
```
 It was introduced in coreutils v8.25, and alignment improved in v8.26

 It only happens when outputting to terminals so doesn't break scripts

 It disambiguates the output for users for files containing whitespace

 It sanitizes output so it is _safe_ to copy and paste

 Output is now always _valid_ to copy and paste back to shell

 Users can get back to the old format by adding -N to their ls alias
```

thanks,
Pádraig