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 10.1.7 Formatting the file names
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 These options change how file names themselves are printed.
 
 `-b'
 `--escape'
 `--quoting-style=escape'
      Quote nongraphic characters in file names using alphabetic and
      octal backslash sequences like those used in C.
 
 `-N'
 `--literal'
 `--quoting-style=literal'
      Do not quote file names.  However, with `ls' nongraphic characters
      are still printed as question marks if the output is a terminal
      and you do not specify the `--show-control-chars' option.
 
 `-q'
 `--hide-control-chars'
      Print question marks instead of nongraphic characters in file
      names.  This is the default if the output is a terminal and the
      program is `ls'.
 
 `-Q'
 `--quote-name'
 `--quoting-style=c'
      Enclose file names in double quotes and quote nongraphic
      characters as in C.
 
 `--quoting-style=WORD'
      Use style WORD to quote file names and other strings that may
      contain arbitrary characters.  The WORD should be one of the
      following:
 
     `literal'
           Output strings as-is; this is the same as the `-N' or
           `--literal' option.
 
     `shell'
           Quote strings for the shell if they contain shell
           metacharacters or would cause ambiguous output.  The quoting
           is suitable for POSIX-compatible shells like `bash', but it
           does not always work for incompatible shells like `csh'.
 
     `shell-always'
           Quote strings for the shell, even if they would normally not
           require quoting.
 
     `c'
           Quote strings as for C character string literals, including
           the surrounding double-quote characters; this is the same as
           the `-Q' or `--quote-name' option.
 
     `escape'
           Quote strings as for C character string literals, except omit
           the surrounding double-quote characters; this is the same as
           the `-b' or `--escape' option.
 
     `clocale'
           Quote strings as for C character string literals, except use
           surrounding quotation marks appropriate for the locale.
 
     `locale'
           Quote strings as for C character string literals, except use
           surrounding quotation marks appropriate for the locale, and
           quote `like this' instead of "like this" in the default C
           locale.  This looks nicer on many displays.
 
      You can specify the default value of the `--quoting-style' option
      with the environment variable `QUOTING_STYLE'.  If that environment
      variable is not set, the default value is `literal', but this
      default may change to `shell' in a future version of this package.
 
 `--show-control-chars'
      Print nongraphic characters as-is in file names.  This is the
      default unless the output is a terminal and the program is `ls'.
 
 

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