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Date:      Mon, 23 Oct 2000 23:51:24 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        "Scott D. Yelich" <scott@scottyelich.com>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Who broke "ls" in FreeBSD? and why? 
Message-ID:  <200010240551.XAA13195@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Oct 2000 22:59:21 MDT." <Pine.GSO.4.21.0010232253210.23207-100000@hackme.spy.org> 
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In message <Pine.GSO.4.21.0010232253210.23207-100000@hackme.spy.org> "Scott D. Yelich" writes:
: Sorry, I can't hold back any longer:
: 
:      -A      List all entries except for `.' and `..'. Always set for the su-
:              per-user.         
: 
: Would someone please be so kind as to explain to me the rationale behind
: that?

It has done that for a long, long, long time.  Like 4.2 BSD iirc from
my VAX days.

: This doesn't appear to be the default forGNU ls, so who "broke" this?

gnu-ls doesn't define a standard.

Warner


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