>From 9ebb1c06ce13407ed321bc67685d3d90c20b62de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 00:31:43 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] doc: mention ls -l user/group justification * doc/coreutils.texi (What information is listed): Document justification of user and group columns in ls -l output (Bug#36220). --- doc/coreutils.texi | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 0b71bedb4..3c2eb9750 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -7662,7 +7662,10 @@ In addition to the name of each file, print the file type, file mode bits, number of hard links, owner name, group name, size, and timestamp (@pxref{Formatting file timestamps}), normally the modification timestamp (the mtime, @pxref{File timestamps}). -Print question marks for information that +If the owner or group name cannot be determined, print +the owner or group ID instead, right-justified as a cue +that it is a number rather than a textual name. +Print question marks for other information that cannot be determined. Normally the size is printed as a byte count without punctuation, but @@ -7772,7 +7775,8 @@ is marked with a @samp{+} character. @cindex numeric uid and gid @cindex numeric user and group IDs Produce long format directory listings, but -display numeric user and group IDs instead of the owner and group names. +display right-justified numeric user and group IDs +instead of left-justified owner and group names. @item -o @opindex -o -- 2.17.1