Ondřej Vašík wrote: > Let's do some summary, feel free to add/comment items if you have > something not mentioned here: > > What patched ls --user-format can and upstream find -printf not: > 1) colored files by LS_COLORS or automatically if requested > 2) could be used simply as ls alias for normal users - as they could > still specify additional ls options like time-style, quoting-style, > sorting style, blocksize, units and other things without modifying > format string > 6) Automated column width computation (in find -printf you have to > hardcode the column width in %N.NX syntax yourself, otherwise there is > no defined human-readable column structure.)
> I guess points #1, #2, #6 are the most important things, as #1 and #2 > makes the output more user friendly and #6 generally readable by human Right. As I see it ls output is tuned for human consumption, while find is tuned for further consumption by other scripts/utils. In my experience I've only needed to tweak output like this to ease the subsequent processing in scripts/utils. I.E. I've never needed it in ls, and I'm not sure it's worth duplicating this in ls (adding a lot of interface for all users to parse and most ignore). Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
