Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 12:23:55 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> To: The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sorting and Matching options for ls(1) Message-ID: <20020308122355.D57999@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20020308200652.GB547@lenny.anarcat.dyndns.org>; from anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org on Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 03:06:52PM -0500 References: <3C862030.9080108@softweyr.com> <20020306131141.A69228@blossom.cjclark.org> <p05101522b8aeacb55495@[128.113.24.47]> <20020308113823.B57999@blossom.cjclark.org> <20020308200652.GB547@lenny.anarcat.dyndns.org>
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On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 03:06:52PM -0500, The Anarcat wrote: > On Fri Mar 08, 2002 at 11:38:23AM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 01:03:45PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > At 1:11 PM -0800 3/6/02, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > >Since we're on the topic of ls(1) having too few options, what I'd > > > >really like is a switch to print the creation, modified, and access > > > >times together. Basically, dumping the whole stat(2) structure would > > > >be nice (some other UNIXes have a separate command to do this). > > > > > > I like the suggestion for -M and -S for 'ls'. I also like the > > > idea of something that could dump the entire stat structure, but > > > that strikes me as being better as a separate utility. What do > > > the other unixes call their command which does this? > > > > IIRC, the first time I ran into such a thing was IRIX, and I found it > > very useful. Here is their stat(1M) manpage, > > > > http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=0650&db=man&fname=/usr/share/catman/a_man/cat1/stat.z > > And there's of course sysutils/stat. > > I would be for including this in the base system. It is extremely > useful. That's pretty much it. Some features of it I like and some I don't. But the problem with that code is that it is in somewhat of a licensing/copyright limbo. It looks like it was grabbed off of Usenet. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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