Pádraig Brady wrote:
Also base64 -w0 has similar meaning.
I didn't know that, but I don't like that either. Utilities should use an
explicit representation for infinity, if that's what they need. 'Inf', say.
In the meantime, the patch that I installed is helpful even if we later add an
Dear developers,
I'm writing to ask for a small change in an already existing feature of
ls command.
The switch is: -w, --width=COLS
Let it be possible to state size ZERO as being infinity, for example:
(A)
ls -m -w0
(B)
ls -x --width=0
That will ensure that:
ls -m -w0 | wc -l
1
Meaning
On 23/08/15 03:08, Beco wrote:
On 22 August 2015 at 22:37, Paul Eggert egg...@cs.ucla.edu
mailto:egg...@cs.ucla.edu wrote:
That's annoying. Thanks for the bug report. I'm a bit dubious about
equating zero to infinity, though, so I installed the attached patch instead.
It will
On 22 August 2015 at 22:37, Paul Eggert egg...@cs.ucla.edu wrote:
That's annoying. Thanks for the bug report. I'm a bit dubious about
equating zero to infinity, though, so I installed the attached patch
instead. It will let you use whatever large number you like. E.g.:
ls
