Created attachment 454642 [details, diff] patch to rever default ls quoting behavior It seems that discussion from back in Feb about changes to the behavior of ls with regard to printing quoted output has not been resolved upstream. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2016-02/msg00019.html http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/258679/why-is-ls-suddenly-wrapping-items-with-spaces-in-single-quotes Until upstream figures out what is going on, can we implement a compile solution for reverting to the normal old default behavior? I don't have a good solution for this other than the one proposed in this mailing list thread https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/message/d5404d231209636850ffb9251c60b595 (the epatch_user is attached). Would it be possible to add a use flag so that we can set default ls output quoting behavior at compile time (using the ls -N alias is not a solution)?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 586246 ***
