Pádraig Brady wrote: > Thanks for doing that. > However I thought that item had been removed from the TODO: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-02/msg00115.html > This is a large patch to do essentially what `find -printf` already does.
Sorry, haven't seen that thread before.
I guess there are some things which you can't do with find -printf and
which you can do with that --user-format ls extension.
I would say there are few reasons why to use ls --user-format instead of
find -printf.
1) It has scalable column width (even possible to reduce width)
2) It has some options unavailable in findutils e.g. for SELinux
context handling and filemode splitting/handling.
3) It is based on the informations you have completed by ls - so it
could be considered more reliable, e.g. it could have EXACTLY
the same output as ls -l otherwise have.
4) Is more frequent to use ls than find -printf for listing files, you
could get colored filenames output with column.
I agree that the patch is quite large, anyway what I have heard from the
guys around me, it would be useful to have that thing in ls. I tried to
not impact the rest of the ls code, so the changes to the main ls code
are pretty minimal (only some counting (and even that only for
user_format selected) and factorization of one function in
print_long_format).
Please consider those things before throwing that patch away.
Greetings,
Ondřej
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