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right-justification of uid's/gid's is a mistake.
From: |
Bauke Jan Douma |
Subject: |
right-justification of uid's/gid's is a mistake. |
Date: |
Wed, 14 Apr 2004 22:29:07 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.4.1i |
Hi,
It's unclear to me if this has been addressed definitively yet,
so here goes nothing:
I think there's no justification (pun intended) for the current
right-justification of uid's/gid's -- it really looks ugly.
Sure it stands out, but I don't think ls should be in the business
of doing special formatting by default based on someone's arbitrary
definition of what needs a user's special attention -- it's contrary
to UNIX philosophy btw.
Ls should basically just list files, and their associated data, by
default in a clean format -- nothing more.
BJ
ridiculous formatting that I don't care for:
total 16
drwx--x--x 3 root staff 4096 Apr 10 23:27 .
drwxrwxrwt 17 root staff 8192 Apr 10 23:23 ..
-rw------- 1 666 staff 0 Apr 10 23:27 foo
dr-xr-xr-x 8 ftp admin 4096 Mar 20 2002 ftp
-rw------- 1 aliceinwonderland staff 0 Apr 10 23:27 humpty-dumpty
clean formatting:
total 16
drwx--x--x 3 root staff 4096 Apr 10 23:27 .
drwxrwxrwt 17 root staff 8192 Apr 10 23:29 ..
-rw------- 1 666 staff 0 Apr 10 23:27 foo
dr-xr-xr-x 8 ftp admin 4096 Mar 20 2002 ftp
-rw------- 1 aliceinwonderland staff 0 Apr 10 23:27 humpty-dumpty
- right-justification of uid's/gid's is a mistake.,
Bauke Jan Douma <=