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On 04/08/2016 12:52 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Thomas Wolff writes: >> Like for grep which now barfs out when a character isnât recognized in >> the current encoding (and grep doesnât even provide an environment >> variable to override this mis-feature), these assumedly-modern >> upstream changes are a nuisance. > > You are barking up the wrng tree, please take that upstream. > >> For ls at least, it can be fixed with the environment variable >> QUOTING_STYLE but that isnât even mentioned in the manual page!%Ââ >> â Poor old Unix tradition fades away. >> >> What about adding >> export QUOTING_STYLE=literal >> to /etc/profile as a fix? > > No, but you're free to do whatever you wish in /etc/profile.d (or lobby > the coreutils maintiner to provide it with the package, although I'd > suggest that it shouldn't get installed by default). If upstream makes it easy to install such an example profile, I'll likewise make it easy to install in cygwin. Otherwise, I don't see any reason to go out of my way to make cygwin diverge from upstream. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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