Re: Inconsistent list output

2022-09-10 Thread Paul Eggert
On 9/10/22 09:51, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: Why 'user/group size' and not two separate fields of 'user/group' and 'size'? Two separate fields would consume more screen space, because the first column is left-adjusted and the second column is right-adjusted. It's the same reason that tradi

Re: Inconsistent list output

2022-09-10 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Paul Eggert (egg...@cs.ucla.edu) wrote: > On 9/8/22 14:23, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > GNU "ls" has this unfortunate misfeature of reading the whole directory to > > read+stat every entry in a directory to determine field width before > > displaying anything (even if unsorted), and this is a real