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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2015-11-03 16:32:08 +0000 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2015-11-04 23:30:15 +0000 |
| commit | 109b9220cead6e979d22d16327c4d9f8350431cc (patch) | |
| tree | 048d336b23d02068fe926224da83c06415b0a3fd /doc | |
| parent | 5ef08864113505c6392158c9fac9a6cb1b3ac0e6 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-109b9220cead6e979d22d16327c4d9f8350431cc.tar.xz | |
ls: default to --quoting=shell-escape for output to terminal
* src/ls.c (decode_switches): Set "shell-escape" if isatty().
* doc/coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Update the defaults description.
* NEWS: Mention the change in behavior. It should not have
backwards compat issues, but mentioning here just in case.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 8618a6457..8034807a4 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -7704,8 +7704,8 @@ this"} in the default C locale. This looks nicer on many displays. You can specify the default value of the @option{--quoting-style} option with the environment variable @env{QUOTING_STYLE}@. If that environment -variable is not set, the default value is @samp{literal}, but this -default may change to @samp{shell} in a future version of this package. +variable is not set, the default value is @samp{shell-escape} when the +output is a terminal, and @samp{literal} otherwise. @item --show-control-chars @opindex --show-control-chars |