Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Guettler wrote: >> Thank you for being interested. I wrote a patch which makes the slash >> optional: >> >> src/du --help: >> ... >> -z, --dir-with-slash append a slash to directories. > > I don't think it's worth an option TBH. > How about we do this iff POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is not set?
Hi Pádraig, I don't like to encourage the use of POSIXLY_CORRECT, and fear such a change might end up doing that. Besides, the cost[*]/benefit ratio of adding trailing slashes by default looks way too high. [*] in potential portability hassles. I.e., people could easily come to rely on the GNU df's trailing slashes, and then inadvertently write non-portable scripts. I'm very dubious about adding this as an option. Do you really think an option is warranted for this, considering you can already get the desired behavior with a small wrapper, as I demonstrated: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/12895/focus=12896 By the way, someone's mail server (Thomas', I think) refused mail from my IP address last time, and I'm not bothering to reroute to accommodate it. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
