Paging Lennart... paging Lennart... he must be around here somewhere...
Fedora 24 (and all cutting-edge distros) has a nice surprise:
touch filenospace touch file\ with\ spaces /bin/ls
'file with spaces' filenospace
Huh? I don't recall putting single-quotes in the filename. http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/258679/why-is-ls-suddenly-wrapping-i...
Oh, so the genius "we know better than 45 years of *NIX" people strike again.
"Why is this happening?" Several coreutils developers decided they knew better than decades of de facto standards.
This change appears in coreutils 8.25-something. If you're running an older distro with 8.24, thank your lucky stars.
Fix is... very systemd-esque ("it's your fault, you must do something to return to normalcy"):
/bin/ls -N
file with spaces filenospace
So update all your aliases folks, on every system, and re-source the alias file... assuming this would drive you as batty as it does me.
Debian has reverted this change as they realized it was insanity. Fedora hasn't (I don't even see a bz for it). OpenSUSE already aliases to -N by default.
The coreutils devs seem to think this bug is a good thing so as to make cutting & pasting consistent for noobs. Hmm, I'm not sure noobs are using the command line all that much, at least not enough to cause the old hands to go insane. And I'm still of the school that spaces don't belong in filenames unless absolutely necessary!
What's your take? Any one for this change?
/RANT