On 09/04/2021 13:02, Carl Edquist wrote:
Dear Coreutils Maintainers,
I'd like to introduce my favorite 'ls' option, '-W', which I have been
enjoying using regularly over the last few years.
The concept is just to sort filenames by their printed widths.
(If this sounds odd, I invite you hear it out, try and see for yourself!)
I am including a patch with my implementation and accompanying tests - as
well as some sample output. And I'll happily field any requests for
improvements.
I quite like this. It seems useful.
Also doing outside of ls is quite awkward,
especially considering multi column output.
I would avoid the -W short option, as that would clash with ls from FreeBSD for
example.
It's probably best to not provide a short option for this at all.
thanks!
Pádraig
