Re: Bug in ls in coreutils-6.9 (Slackware 12.0, anyway)

[Eric Blake]

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According to Jim Diamond on 7/9/2007 5:47 PM:
> It seems "ls -x" has brain damage on Slackware 12.0, which uses coreutils.

Known bug, and already fixed in git/CVS:

  ls -x DIR would sometimes output the wrong string in place of the
  first entry.  [introduced in coreutils-6.8]

> If I can provide any other info, don't hesitate to mail me.  And if
> this is a Slackware bug (which seems unlikely to me), sorry for the
> false alarm.

You can wait for coreutils 6.10, convince Slackware to backport the fix to
their 6.9 package, or build a recent snapshot, such as
http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.9+.tar.gz.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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