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bug#33157: QUOTING_STYLE change of default
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Arvid Requate |
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bug#33157: QUOTING_STYLE change of default |
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Thu, 25 Oct 2018 23:45:19 +0200 |
Hi,
after updating to Debian buster I had the impression that my eyes are failing
on me. This posting pretty much summarizes my opinion:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2016-02/msg00001.html
especially the first paragraph:
On 02/01/16 07:17 Harald Dunkel wrote:
> On 02/01/16 17:07, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>
> > The reasons we changed the default was:
> >
> > - It only happens when outputting to terminals
>
> This means if you use "ls -1 | somescript" the script will
> not see the quoting style. Don't you think that this is
> inconsistent, not to mention that a script would benefit
> much more from this quoting style than a human?
I feel that this upstream change is a misuse of power by three coreutils
developers and I vote for reverting to the old default of "literal".
Cheers,
Arvid Requate
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