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
display() to calculate column widths, but was not initialized in
main(). This resulted in a division by zero.
Noticed by: Michael Butler <imb@protected-networks.net>
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).
Otherwise the -i option will show the inode number of the referenced file
for symbolic links given on the command line. Similarly, the file color
was printed according to the link target in colorized output.
PR: bin/102394
Reviewed by: jilles
MFC after: 2 weeks
- Allow -h option to work if the listing contains at least one device
file.
- Align major and minor device numbers correctly to the size field.
PR: bin/125678
Approved by: trasz (mentor)
MFC after: 1 month
provides an empty fts_name and reporting the full path is more
appropriate especially with the -R option.
PR: bin/107515
Submitted by: bde
Approved by: trasz (mentor)
MFC after: 1 week
According to the man page, when neither -H/-L nor -F/-d/-l are given, -H is
implied. This agrees with POSIX, GNU ls and Solaris ls. This means that -p,
although it is very similar to -F, does not prevent the implicit following
of symlinks.
PR: standards/128546
flag to use a time other than modtime (-c, -u, or -U), the output would
actually be sorted by the specified time rather than size. This does
alter the behavior in the case where both -S and -t are specified. Now,
-S is always preferred. Previously, -t was preferred if one of -c, -u, or
-U was specified, and -S was preferred otherwise. Perhaps -S and -t should
override each other (last one specified wins).
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
the [acm]time are the same. I was going to use Scott's patch, but I
couldn't get the style quite right, so I used a patch of my own.
Submitted by: Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd at fishballoon.org>
MFC after: 3 weeks
have no entries to print (either due to an empty directory or an
error). This makes the -l and -s options more consistent, like
Solaris and (Debian) Linux. To make this happen, tweak two
optimizations on the second call to display():
- Don't skip display() altogether, even if list == NULL.
- Don't skip the call to the printfn in display() if we
need to print the total.
PR: 45723
