bug#25388: Bug in ls, kills existing scripts reading "ls" -1 as input

[L A Walsh]

Eric Blake wrote:
> On 01/09/2017 12:48 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
>
> > > Sure it is. 'ls' has done that since then 1980s. 'ls' shows
> > > multicolumn output when the output is a tty, and single-column output
> > > when piped into a pager.
> > ----
> >     That's not what I'm used to:
>
> > ls alias on my machines:
> > alias ls='ls -CF --show-control-chars --color=always'
>
> That's because you are using an alias to alter 'ls' to non-default
> behavior for your personal default.
>
> Try again with '\ls' everywhere you previously used 'ls', and you will
> see that output to the terminal is different than output to a file or
> pipeline.
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Gee guess you missed my 1st response to Andreas:

>     I changed it on my machine to put out color
> even if through a pipe as I usually am piping it through
> 'less' and I want to see the color.  If I want no color --
> I can get the normal text by adding a backslash before
> the command.  
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So 'backslash' usage -- got that -- disables alias usage.

Thanks.
:-)