bug#70418: ls bug

2024-04-17 Thread Paul Eggert
On 4/17/24 03:19, Pádraig Brady wrote: Patch looks good, and conforms to POSIX. Thanks for the review. I installed the patch and am closing this bug report.

bug#70418: ls bug

2024-04-17 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 16/04/2024 23:17, Paul Eggert wrote: On 4/16/24 14:30, Toby Kelsey wrote: The man page doesn't explain this format conflict, while the info page (info '(coreutils) ls invocation' or 'info ls') claims '-f' implies '-1' which is also incorrect: 'ls -1f' gives different output to to 'ls -f'. Y

bug#70418: ls bug

2024-04-16 Thread Chris Elvidge
Thanks for the clarification and patch On 16/04/2024 at 23:17, Paul Eggert wrote: On 4/16/24 14:30, Toby Kelsey wrote: The man page doesn't explain this format conflict, while the info page (info '(coreutils) ls invocation' or 'info ls') claims '-f' implies '-1' which is also incorrect: 'ls -1

bug#70418: ls bug

2024-04-16 Thread Paul Eggert
On 4/16/24 14:30, Toby Kelsey wrote: The man page doesn't explain this format conflict, while the info page (info '(coreutils) ls invocation' or 'info ls') claims '-f' implies '-1' which is also incorrect: 'ls -1f' gives different output to to 'ls -f'. Yes, this area of GNU 'ls' a mess. Option

bug#70418: ls bug

2024-04-16 Thread Toby Kelsey
The man page doesn't explain this format conflict, while the info page (info '(coreutils) ls invocation' or 'info ls') claims '-f' implies '-1' which is also incorrect: 'ls -1f' gives different output to to 'ls -f'. I am using coreutils 9.4-3 in Manjaro and the online documentation for 9.5

bug#70418: ls bug

2024-04-16 Thread Chris Elvidge
On 16/04/2024 at 16:07, Toby Kelsey wrote: There appears to be a bug with 'ls' when using the '-f' and '-l' options, or at least an inconsistency with the man page. The man page says '-f' list entries in directory order and does not mention any incompatibilities with other options, however I

bug#70418: ls bug

2024-04-16 Thread Toby Kelsey
There appears to be a bug with 'ls' when using the '-f' and '-l' options, or at least an inconsistency with the man page. The man page says '-f' list entries in directory order and does not mention any incompatibilities with other options, however I find using it with the '-l' option gives differ