Hi Ondřej, By the way, someone wrote this privately: > [a] reservation I have against adding --printf to ls is that > inexperienced shell scripters will use that before find -printf. > Thus shell scripts on newer linux systems will tend to become > less portable wrt older linux and other posix systems.
That is true, but if we (you ;-) do the job right, the documentation for ls --printf will strongly urge the reader to avoid using it in scripts, with a suggestion to use find's more portable -printf predicate instead. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
