From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 15:31:39 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: stat: change default quoting from shell-escape-always to shell-escape
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stat: change default quoting from shell-escape-always to shell-escape

This should not affect programatic parsing, because if you have to parse
the shell style, then the same logic will parse unescaped output.
This is a better default now that --terse uses quoted format by default,
and also the default output format quotes file names by default.

* src/stat.c (getenv_quoting_style): Change the default.
---

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 33c7f19594..a0b4cd9cf7 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -12600,7 +12600,7 @@ numbers unambiguously octal, you can use @samp{%#03a}.
 
 The @samp{%N} and @samp{%Qn} formats can be set with the environment variable
 @env{QUOTING_STYLE}@.  If that environment variable is not set,
-the default value is @samp{shell-escape-always}.  Valid quoting styles are:
+the default value is @samp{shell-escape}.  Valid quoting styles are:
 @quotingStyles
 
 The @samp{r}, @samp{R}, @samp{%t}, and @samp{%T} formats operate on the st_rdev
diff --git a/src/stat.c b/src/stat.c
index c76f4880a7..77ea54cdeb 100644
--- a/src/stat.c
+++ b/src/stat.c
@@ -874,13 +874,13 @@ getenv_quoting_style (void)
         set_quoting_style (NULL, quoting_style_vals[i]);
       else
         {
-          set_quoting_style (NULL, shell_escape_always_quoting_style);
+          set_quoting_style (NULL, shell_escape_quoting_style);
           error (0, 0, _("ignoring invalid value of environment "
                          "variable QUOTING_STYLE: %s"), quote (q_style));
         }
     }
   else
-    set_quoting_style (NULL, shell_escape_always_quoting_style);
+    set_quoting_style (NULL, shell_escape_quoting_style);
 }
 
 /* Equivalent to quotearg(), but explicit to avoid syntax checks.  */