Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| I'm using:
|
| creche. ls --version
| ls (GNU fileutils) 4.0p
| Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie.
|
| Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
| This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
| warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
|
| (BTW this is a stock RH 6.2 system. I didn't know they were shipping
| fileutils prereleases. Did you ok that?)
I don't think anyone asked, but it's fine by me.
| On an internal Red Hat mailing list someone was noting that there were
| so many ls options you could almost write `ls -<yourname>'.
|
| The first bug is that none of my names has a meaning for ls :-), eg:
|
| creche. ls -Tom
| ls: invalid tab size: om
|
| Ok, I'm kidding.
|
| The real bug is that `ls -e' doesn't print a sensible error message.
Thanks for the report.
That was fixed in 4.0r.
| Compare with `ls -y':
|
| creche. ls -e
| Try `ls --help' for more information.
| creche. ls -y
| ls: invalid option -- y
| Try `ls --help' for more information.
|
| `ls --help' doesn't say that `-e' is used for anything.
|
| Tom
|
| PS I'm ok if I use all lowercase, like `ls -tom'. In the olden days,
| I hear, you were a wizard if you could tell what TECO would do if you
| typed in your name. Nowadays I guess the wizards can predict ls
| output. For instance I had no idea about `ls -m'. (BTW why would I
| ever want that?)
I don't know.
