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From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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	Jeremy Lea <reg@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Who broke "ls" in FreeBSD? and why?
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On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 12:23:57AM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> What's wrong with -a?  And what the heck does this have to do with
> mobile computing?

-a doesn't disable -A, it adds to it (also shows . and ..).  I think
this guy's looking for an option to disable this flag.. no idea why.
One could simply invoke `ls' as a normal user (say, `nobody') if they so
desired.

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Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> - Physics Computer Network wench


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