bug#25388: Bug in ls, kills existing scripts reading "ls" -1 as input

[Andreas Schwab]

On Jan 06 2017, L A Walsh <address@hidden> wrote:

> The new ls doesn't maintain backwards compatibility.
> The default options now add extraneous quotes to
> some filenames.
>
> Anyplace one uses 'ls -1' to read 1 file/line
> now breaks.
>
> This is a regression as it breaks existing
> scripts and behavior.

Does it?

$ touch 'a b'
$ ls -1 | grep "'"

Andreas.

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