From 109b9220cead6e979d22d16327c4d9f8350431cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pádraig Brady Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 16:32:08 +0000 Subject: 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. --- NEWS | 3 +++ doc/coreutils.texi | 4 ++-- src/ls.c | 1 + 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 38b466465..08cb1388f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- df now prefers sources towards the root of a device when eliding duplicate bind mounted entries. + ls now quotes file names unambiguously and appropriate for use in a shell, + when outputting to a terminal. + ** Improvements All utilities now quote user supplied arguments in error strings, 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 diff --git a/src/ls.c b/src/ls.c index c22c536c0..2ae548d99 100644 --- a/src/ls.c +++ b/src/ls.c @@ -1581,6 +1581,7 @@ decode_switches (int argc, char **argv) if (isatty (STDOUT_FILENO)) { format = many_per_line; + set_quoting_style (NULL, shell_escape_quoting_style); /* See description of qmark_funny_chars, above. */ qmark_funny_chars = true; } -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf