[gpm]

ls (specifically the version used on just about every linux distro) had a huge breaking change in 2016, so this is objectively false.

https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/quotes.html

[baz00]

I refer to my comment made before this about GNU being the wild west https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37419333

[drivers99]

They made the change only take effect outputting directly to a tty, so it won't break scripts. This is similar to how multi-column output and color output work.