Bauke Jan Douma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> One possible change would be to right-adjust the numbers, but to have >> their right margin be at a minimal location. That would cause the >> output to have the "clean formatting" that you suggested, while still >> preserving the right-adjustedness of numbers in the example above. > > I'm not sure I follow you here -- what format string would that > be in C?
There isn't one :-). Here's a sample output to give you an idea: -rw-r--r-- 1 eggert eggert 0 2004-04-17 21:38 a -rw-r--r-- 1 root eggert 0 2004-04-17 21:38 b -rw-r--r-- 1 1002 root 0 2004-04-17 21:38 c -rw-r--r-- 1 10000 10000 0 2004-04-17 21:38 d The basic idea is that the numbers all are right adjusted, but the longest number is left-aligned with the names. This is as opposed to the current approach, where the longest number is right-aligned with the longest name. Note that there will still be leading spaces with some numbers (as in the "1002" above), but there will be fewer leading spaces than there are now, and all the numbers will still line up. > Anyway, I saw some talk the other day about having a --format > option for 'ls' and others. Yes, that's the long-term solution. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
