[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > It is verbose to print '?' to stdout since the error message is printed > out to stderr and the exit status is non-zero, isn't it?
Sure, but 'ls' has partial information about the files in question: it knows their names, it knows they exist, and it knows their file types. 5.2.1 'ls' in this case refused to print anything on stdout for such files, which meant that useful information was suppressed. Coreutils 6.9 'ls' prints everything it discovers, using '?' to denote unknown values; the idea is that it's more helpful to output partial information than no information. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
