Valery Ushakov <u...@stderr.spb.ru> wrote: > I'd say -1 is the option for "the output is meant to read > programmatically" and it's antonym is -C for "the output for human > consumption". If ls outputs to a pipe it infers -1 automatically > unless -C is specified (cf. "command ls | more"). The total is "for > human consumption" (phrased as "the output is to a terminal"), so when > you specify -1 you turn that off.
Yeah, that's certainly a possible interpretation. In that case, though, the manual page should say so. -Jan
