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Re: general coreutils feature requests
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Bob Proulx |
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Re: general coreutils feature requests |
Date: |
Sat Nov 2 21:27:06 2002 |
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Padraig Brady <address@hidden> [2002-10-14 15:16:25 +0100]:
> du should have same color options as ls
> tree (Steve Baker (address@hidden)) should be part
[...I deleted items of which I really had no opinion...]
> ls should have an option so that ls ""
> prints a newline rather than
> ls: : No such file or directory
> This would allow you to group files in listings.
Huh? I completely disagree about ls "" producing a newline. If you
want to print a newline use either 'echo' or 'printf'. But perhaps
you could expand upon what you are thinking. It was not clear to me.
> od should support -tX (print hex in uppercase)
There is always
tr '[[:lower:]]' '[[:upper:]]'
> jot would be a very nice addition
>
> Really should be a --sort-algorithm=.... option
> to sort, to allow you to add new ones cohesively.
> One new algoithm that would be very nice is a
> "filename" one that deals with . and [0-9] appropriately
> in filenames.
You are not thinking of something like the existing?
ls --sort=version
> printf should provide higher level functions than stdio printf, including...
> %h for 1234567 -> 1,234,567
> %H for 1234567 -> 1.1M (diff options for base 10 and base 2)
> It should lookup the locale for the decimal char etc.
> perhaps %8 %2 etc, for arbitrary bases?
> maybe %us for toupper, %ls for tolower?
> implement %q and %b that bash does
> maybe %S for shell quoting
> '%3*s' '>' should print >>>
> %z for length of string
Wow, what a list! Feel free to submit code patches to implement
those. They will need to go through a review.
Bob
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