I dont know if this is a bug but it totally stalled my machine. I tried out ls --width=600000 and it began allocating memory to the point where the Linux kernel started to kill other processes to free more memory and eventually killing ls. Maybe it is not very useful to be able to specify a line width of 600000 ? My system is a GNU/Linux 2.2.17 Debian Woody on an i586 with glibc 2.2 and ls (GNU fileutils) 4.0.31. -- Sakari Lehtonen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils