-rw------- 1 root root 861286 Apr 9 15:10 maillog Personally, I find directory listings more difficult to read with those columns packed together so tightly. Would it be possible to make it two spaces instead (a la FreeBSD "ls")?
I'm no expert, but this would not be POSIX compliant (but it could be done if POSIXLY_CORRECT isn't set for example), from IEE Std 1003.1 (http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/ls.html): ,----[ POSIX 1003.1, ls ] | If the -l option is specified without -L, the following information | shall be written: | | "%s %u %s %s %u %s %s\n", <file mode>, <number of links>, | <owner name>, <group name>, <number of bytes in the file>, | <date and time>, <pathname> `---- And to be a real nitpicker, there should be only one space between the <file mode> and <number of links> filed from GNU ls if one should follow POSIX stricly... Mmm... Maybe there is even a smallish bug in POSIX, from the example section (ls -laRF): -rwxr--r-- 1 hlj prog 572 Jul 4 12:07 foo* That doesn't corespond with the above rule for -l. Should this be reported to the OpenGroup? Cheers. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
