On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 01:00:05 MST, "Brian F. Feldman" wrote:
> The reason I say it doesn't make sense is that you shouldn't be asking
> for a long listing with ls -l if you want numeric ids, you should be
> using ls -n. Instead of your alias, you should just be using ls -n
> where you'd otherwise use ls -l.
That's good enough for me. :-)
If there are no objections (other than the obvious backward issue of
compatibility) in the next few days, I'll bring Chris's change in (with
a style fix), as well as teaching -o to imply -l.
I'm not to phased with backward compatibility on this one, since I think
it's always been understood that the output of ls isn't really intended
for scripts (that's what find and test are for). The OpenGroup spec
actually makes a point of that in its manpage.
Thanks for your input.
Later,
Sheldon.
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