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Date:      Fri, 14 Jun 1996 01:00:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-bugs
Subject:   Re: bin/1315: ls(1)
Message-ID:  <199606140800.BAA15935@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/1315; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To: zgabor@code.hu
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/1315: ls(1)
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 09:33:10 +0200 (MET DST)

 As Zahemszky Gabor wrote:
 
 > 	a) the ls command's -q option has not got an opposite - so I cannot
 > 	force ls to output the correct character to the terminal (I got a ?
 > 	instead)
 
 ls -C | cat
 
 > 	b) missing an option (eg -S) to sort by size
 
 ls -s | sort -n | rs
 
 (Likewise for sorting by inode or by owner.)
 
 > 	c) missing an option (eg -b as in AT&T Unices) to force printing
 > 	non-printable characters as octal \xyz format. - and as I see, ls
 
 I've already thought about adding this one (and will keep the PR open
 for just this).
 
 > 	doesn't know LANG, and LC_CTYPE (so I haven't got accented
 > 	characters in the filenames)
 
 Almost no utility in 2.1R did care for LC_CTYPE unless you have been
 setting the environmental variable ENABLE_STARTUP_LOCALE.  This has
 been fixed in the current development sources.
 
 -- 
 cheers, J"org
 
 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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