[RndTbl] ls auto-quote rant

[Trevor Cordes]

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-items-with-spaces-in-single-quotes

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