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Date:      Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:58:13 +0700
From:      Edho Arief <edho@myconan.net>
To:        Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
Cc:        Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org>, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, freebsd-current Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>, "Wojciech A. Koszek" <wkoszek@freebsd.czest.pl>
Subject:   Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh
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On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Gavin Atkinson
<gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> wrote:
> This change is disruptive, and it can affect use of ls(1) in scripts.

Scripts never use alias and...

> For example, it even sticks the extra characters in the output of
> "ls -1" (the number 1), which is specifically designed to be used when
> piping the output elsewhere. =C2=A0Please do not break this. =C2=A0It is =
also

...actually, don't ever parse ls output.

http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs

> command line with "-f". =C2=A0The "ls -F" change cannot be overridden wit=
hout
> unaliasing.
>

Try prepending the command with backslash to run unaliased command.

\ls


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