From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Jun 14 01:00:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA15965 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 01:00:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA15935; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 01:00:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 01:00:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199606140800.BAA15935@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs Cc: From: J Wunsch Subject: Re: bin/1315: ls(1) Reply-To: J Wunsch Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The following reply was made to PR bin/1315; it has been noted by GNATS. From: J Wunsch 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. ;-)