I've noticed that in the latest versions of "ls" (coreutils 5.x I guess) there's only a single space separating the user, group, and file size columns when the "-l" option is used. For example:
-rw------- 1 root root 861286 Apr 9 15:10 maillog
Personally, I find directory listings more difficult to read with those columns packed together so tightly. Would it be possible to make it two spaces instead (a la FreeBSD "ls")?
-rw------- 1 root root 861286 Apr 9 15:10 maillog
Patch (against today's CVS) follows.
Thanks, Jordan Russell
Index: ls.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/coreutils/coreutils/src/ls.c,v retrieving revision 1.352 diff -u -r1.352 ls.c --- ls.c 2 Feb 2004 07:59:23 -0000 1.352 +++ ls.c 9 Apr 2004 19:45:32 -0000 @@ -2972,9 +2972,9 @@ { char const *name = (numeric_ids ? NULL : getuser (u)); if (name) - printf ("%-*s ", width, name); + printf ("%-*s ", width, name); else - printf ("%*lu ", width, (unsigned long int) u); + printf ("%*lu ", width, (unsigned long int) u); dired_pos += width; dired_pos++; } @@ -2986,9 +2986,9 @@ { char const *name = (numeric_ids ? NULL : getgroup (g)); if (name) - printf ("%-*s ", width, name); + printf ("%-*s ", width, name); else - printf ("%*lu ", width, (unsigned long int) g); + printf ("%*lu ", width, (unsigned long int) g); dired_pos += width; dired_pos++; }
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