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Re: ls -l --no-total


From: Alfred M. Szmidt
Subject: Re: ls -l --no-total
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 05:39:05 +0100

   > Did I mention ls should have a --no-total option
   > to remove those annoying
   > total 1120
   > without needing to pipe to a filter.

   Another possibility would be to output the `total' to stderr.

The horror, why do people come up with these silly ideas?  `total
NNNNN' is not a error message, and doesn't belong on stderr.

Do it correctly, extend ls so that the user can modify the output like
for stat.

I'm still horrified...




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