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bug#33113: incorrect and inconsistent quoting in ls output
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Pádraig Brady |
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bug#33113: incorrect and inconsistent quoting in ls output |
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Sat, 27 Oct 2018 07:28:26 -0700 |
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On 23/10/18 17:54, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 10/22/18 1:44 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>> On the behavior, there's still the issue concerning = and &.
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> Yes, you're right, there's no need to quote = with -b.
The reason \= is quoted with -bF is to distinguish socket
names that end in =. An edge case indeed, though the issue
is not particular to '=', but all of the classifier chars.
Now we could quote with -F only if these chars are at the end,
though I'm not sure that complexity is warranted.
cheers,
Pádraig