積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
Indeed all you need to do would me mention the logic there on INFO "ls"
and we would realize that this was actually a feature.
OK, I installed the attached and am marking this bug as done.
>From 9ebb1c06ce13407ed321bc67685d3d90c20b62de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 00:31:43 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] doc: mention ls -l user/group justification
* doc/coreutils.texi (What information is listed):
Document justification of user and group columns in ls -l output
(Bug#36220).
---
doc/coreutils.texi | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 0b71bedb4..3c2eb9750 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -7662,7 +7662,10 @@ In addition to the name of each file, print the file type, file mode bits,
number of hard links, owner name, group name, size, and
timestamp (@pxref{Formatting file timestamps}), normally
the modification timestamp (the mtime, @pxref{File timestamps}).
-Print question marks for information that
+If the owner or group name cannot be determined, print
+the owner or group ID instead, right-justified as a cue
+that it is a number rather than a textual name.
+Print question marks for other information that
cannot be determined.
Normally the size is printed as a byte count without punctuation, but
@@ -7772,7 +7775,8 @@ is marked with a @samp{+} character.
@cindex numeric uid and gid
@cindex numeric user and group IDs
Produce long format directory listings, but
-display numeric user and group IDs instead of the owner and group names.
+display right-justified numeric user and group IDs
+instead of left-justified owner and group names.
@item -o
@opindex -o
--
2.17.1
