Dear developers, I'm writing to ask for a small change in an already existing feature of "ls" command.
The switch is: -w, --width=COLS Let it be possible to state size ZERO as being "infinity", for example: (A) ls -m -w0 (B) ls -x --width=0 That will ensure that: ls -m -w0 | wc -l 1 Meaning that ls will output a single line. For now a workaround is just use a very big number for width, say -w10000, but this hack must be checked beforehand in any directory. LSSIZE=1000; test $(ls -x -w$LSSIZE | wc -l) == 1 && echo size $LSSIZE ok || echo size $LSSIZE not ok I hope : * I could inspire you to understand the easy modification that's asked * the usefulness of the modification Thanks, Beco -- Dr Beco A.I. researcher "I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant" -- Alan Greenspan GPG Key: https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x5A107A425102382A Creation date: pgp.mit.edu ID as of 2014-11-09
