Hi, Lots of questions online asking what the various columns output by ls are and ultimately it seems ls...
does not print headingsdoes not offer an option to print headingsdoes not doc what the columns areand what is output and in what order varies with the software version, options used, and possibly distribution. I've resorted to comparing the output with output from the stat command to figure it out.I've even considered replacing it with a bash script along the lines of \ls -1 | xargs -n1 stat --printf='%B*%b %n\n' etc so I can determine and output the headings. It'd be nice if ls had a command line option to output column headings (leave the default as is so as not to break existing scripts) Looks like it hasn't changed in 10 yrs or so. With linux maturing/becoming more attractive the way it is and alternatives getting uglier maybe an update is in order. Cheers, Bob.
