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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
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@@ -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