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Re: [PATCH] ls: adding --zero/-z option, including tests
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Bernhard Voelker |
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Re: [PATCH] ls: adding --zero/-z option, including tests |
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Mon, 03 Feb 2014 20:27:23 +0100 |
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On 02/03/2014 04:27 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> However ls is really a tool for direct consumption by a human,
> and in that case further processing is less useful.
> For futher processing, find(1) is more suited.
Furthermore, it might be a bit tricky to mutually exclude
other formatting options like -l (ell), -1 (one) ... and
some of these might even be defined in the LS_OPTIONS
environment variable.
The problem is that find(1) doesn't have options for sorting
by size or mtime like ls already has, unfortunately ... but
OTOH, ls' output is not suitable for -z when it comes to
recursion (-R).
Thus, I'm also 60:40 against adding it, as the most powerful
use would probably be recursion.
Have a nice day,
Berny