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again, aliasing it is fine for interactive use. the point is that this breaks an unbelievable amount of already deployed scripts. The new functionality should
by arbitrage 6y ago
again, aliasing it is fine for interactive use.
the point is that this breaks an unbelievable amount of already deployed scripts. The new functionality should be optional, and accessed via switches and aliases if you like it.
this was very much a change only a few people liked, that they decided to force down literally everyone else's throats. it's very poor stewardship.
- Delk 6y agoOkay. The GNU page says the quoting is only done when the output is a terminal, so it shouldn't generally affect scripts. Although considering that the world of unix shells is fairly complex, I wouldn't be surprised if there was some kind of a weird but explainable situation where some kind of a script would still break, so I suppose it could be a problem somewhere.