sorting order for time and name with the -t option. IEEE Std 1003.2
(POSIX.2) mandates that the -t option sort in descending order, and
that if two files have the same timestamp, they should be sorted in
ascending order of their names. The -r flag reverses both of these
sort orders, so they're never the same. This creates significant
problems for sequentially named files stored on FAT file systems,
where it can be impossible to list them in the order in which they
were created.
Add , (comma) option to print file sizes grouped and separated by
thousands using the non-monetary separator returned by localeconv(3),
typically a comma or period.
MFC after: 14 days
As of FreeBSD 6, devices can only be opened through devfs. These device
nodes don't have major and minor numbers anymore. The st_rdev field in
struct stat is simply based a copy of st_ino.
Simply display device numbers as hexadecimal, using "%#jx". This is
allowed by POSIX, since it explicitly states things like the following
(example taken from ls(1)):
"If the file is a character special or block special file, the
size of the file may be replaced with implementation-defined
information associated with the device in question."
This makes the output of these commands more compact. For example, ls(1)
now uses approximately four columns less. While there, simplify the
column length calculation from ls(1) by calling snprintf() with a NULL
buffer.
Don't be afraid; if needed one can still obtain individual major/minor
numbers using stat(1).
files is too much and hard to follow. Instead, make the -I option
just mean "do not automatically set -A for root". That is, if -A
is explicitly set, -I is ignored. Also, document -I in usage().
(The ls.c diff is better viewed relative to rev. 1.80.)
No objection: mux
Silence from: mnag
MFC after: 3 days
sort(1). This functionality is provided by the -S option now, and it
is useful even though a similar effect is achievable with sort(1),
since the latter doesn't work in combination with -h. This option is
also present in NetBSD, OpenBSD, and GNU fileutils, so there's clearly
a demand for it.
Noticed by: asmodai
have this option with identical semantics (sorting large files first).
-r can be used to reverse the sort if that is desired.
PR: 81625
Submitted by: Kostas Blekos <mplekos@physics.upatras.gr>, keramida
regardless whether the output is to a terminal or not. As this is
consistent with the SUSPv2 specification (even though we do not
otherwise fully implement SUSPv2's ls(1) options), document this as it
is now, rather than trying to change the behaviour itself.
PR: docs/76072
Submitted by: Sebastian Rey <Sebastian.rey@gmx.net>
MFC after: 1 week
LC_CTYPE setting) when determining which characters are printable.
This is an often-requested feature.
Use wcwidth() to determine the number of column positions a character
takes up, although there are still a few places left where we assume
1 byte = 1 column position, e.g. line-wrapping when handling the -m option.
The error handling here is somewhat more complicated than usual: we do
our best to show what we can of a filename in the presence of conversion
errors, instead of simply aborting.
listings if the file has an extended ACL (more than the required 3 entries).
This is what Solaris and IRIX do, and what the withdrawn POSIX.2c standard
required.
Reviewed by: rwatson (an earlier version of the patch)
than the LOMAC-specific interfaces for listing MAC labels. This permits
ls to view MAC labels in a manner similar to getfmac, when ls is used
with the -l argument. Next generation LOMAC will use the MAC Framework
so should "just" work with this and other policies. Not the prettiest
code in the world, but then, neither is ls(1).
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
-m List files across the page, separated by commas.
-p Print a slash after directory names
-x Same as -C but sort across the columns rather than down
Submitted by: Kyle Martin <mkm@ieee.org>
file sizes to be displayed with unit suffixes; Byte, Kilobyte,
Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte and Petabyte in order to reduce the
number of digits to three or less.
Submitted by: nik
are now defined using the characters a-h and A-H for the bold
variants. The old way using 0-7 for the colours still works, but
prints a message asking the user to switch.
PR: bin/27374