Stop ls in Linux Debian Mint CentOS Ubuntu from applying quotes around filenames and directory names – rtt

Later versions of ls try to be helpful and smart to prevent errors in dealing with files with spaces that were tradtionally a pain.

However if you need the raw/real filenames, this can break scripts or if you are pasting into a csv etc….

How do you make ls not add the quotes?

Add the capital “-N” switch

ls -N

You could also add an alias to make it more permanent

Do this to add it to ~/.bashrc

alias ls="ls -N"

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