From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 18 14:15:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 563B437B402 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:15:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2IMF9Z4054992; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 16:15:12 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g2IMF9e2054991; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 16:15:09 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 16:15:09 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: freeBSD@soulfound.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ls -la vs. ls -lah Message-ID: <20020318221509.GC13815@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Mar 18), freeBSD@soulfound.com said: > I am new to the Free BSD way and found the human readable format I am > used to seeing on most Unix OS does not work on BSD. > > For example: > > > ls -lah > ls: illegal option -- h > usage: ls [-ABCFGHLPRTWabcdfgiklnoqrstu1] [file ...] > > > > Is there any command or plug-in I can use that will enable this or > use as an alternative? You can use the misc/gnuls port for now. Ls on -current has the '-h' option, so I assume it will be just a matter of time until 4.* gets it. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message