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bug#8578: 8.12 and 8.10 'ls -dl' appends ' ' (0x20: space) to file outpu


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#8578: 8.12 and 8.10 'ls -dl' appends ' ' (0x20: space) to file output lines
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:34:17 -0700
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On 04/28/11 11:34, Jason Vas Dias wrote:

> $ ls -dl /. | od -cx
> ...
> 0000040   r       2   0       1   5   :   2   8       /   .  \n
>            2072    3032    3120    3a35    3832    2f20    0a2e
> 0000056
> 
> Please could the ls developer let me know if it 100% POSIXLY correct
> that ls appends 0x20 to the filename '/.'  here ?

I don't see any space appended there.  The last four bytes of
output are 0x20, 0x2f, 0x2e, 0x0a (space, /, ., newline).
Perhaps you're misunderstanding the little-endian nature of
od -x output?





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