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Re: strange behaviour of 'ls'
- From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 20:52:09 +0200
- Subject: Re: strange behaviour of 'ls'
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Thomas Wolff writes:
> Like for grep which now barfs out when a character isnât recognized in
> the current encoding (and grep doesnât even provide an environment
> variable to override this mis-feature), these assumedly-modern
> upstream changes are a nuisance.
You are barking up the wrng tree, please take that upstream.
> For ls at least, it can be fixed with the environment variable
> QUOTING_STYLE but that isnât even mentioned in the manual page!%Ââ
> â Poor old Unix tradition fades away.
>
> What about adding
> export QUOTING_STYLE=literal
> to /etc/profile as a fix?
No, but you're free to do whatever you wish in /etc/profile.d (or lobby
the coreutils maintiner to provide it with the package, although I'd
suggest that it shouldn't get installed by default).
Regards,
Achim.
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