Re: ls display directory context?

[Andreas Schwab]

Nic Ferrier <address@hidden> writes:

> I've considered the semantics of the --dircontext switch. I think what
> I actually want is ls to be able to acknowledge what directory I told
> is to look in.
>
> So if I say:
>
>    ls --dircontext childdir
>
> it comes back with:
>
>    childdir/a.txt childdir/b.txt

$ ls childdir | sed 's,^,childdir/,'

(Uses -1 format and doesn't handle newlines in file names.)

Andreas.

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