Re: broken ls in coreutils 8.25

[Mike Frysinger]

On 02 Feb 2016 07:17, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> On 02/01/16 17:07, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > - Output can be pasted back in the shell for further processing
> 
> This means that it useful only on a graphic terminal, for people
> using a mouse, but it affects all users using "ls"

that's incorrect.  screen/tmux/emacs and i'm sure more all have methods
for selecting/copying/pasting chunks of text using only the keyboard.

> > - Users can get back to the old format by adding -N to their ls alias
> 
> Or they can use busybox, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and tons of others.

then export the env var instead.  this is not that big of a deal.
-mike

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