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Re: [PATCH]: ls: add --user-format option for user defined format
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: [PATCH]: ls: add --user-format option for user defined format |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:57:04 +0000 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071008) |
Ondřej Vašík wrote:
> Let's do some summary, feel free to add/comment items if you have
> something not mentioned here:
>
> What patched ls --user-format can and upstream find -printf not:
> 1) colored files by LS_COLORS or automatically if requested
> 2) could be used simply as ls alias for normal users - as they could
> still specify additional ls options like time-style, quoting-style,
> sorting style, blocksize, units and other things without modifying
> format string
> 6) Automated column width computation (in find -printf you have to
> hardcode the column width in %N.NX syntax yourself, otherwise there is
> no defined human-readable column structure.)
> I guess points #1, #2, #6 are the most important things, as #1 and #2
> makes the output more user friendly and #6 generally readable by human
Right.
As I see it ls output is tuned for human consumption,
while find is tuned for further consumption by other scripts/utils.
In my experience I've only needed to tweak output like this
to ease the subsequent processing in scripts/utils.
I.E. I've never needed it in ls, and I'm not sure it's
worth duplicating this in ls (adding a lot of interface
for all users to parse and most ignore).
Pádraig.
- [PATCH]: ls: add --user-format option for user defined format, Ondřej Vašík, 2008/11/04
- Re: [PATCH]: ls: add --user-format option for user defined format, Pádraig Brady, 2008/11/04
- Re: [PATCH]: ls: add --user-format option for user defined format, Ondřej Vašík, 2008/11/04
- Re: [PATCH]: ls: add --user-format option for user defined format, Jim Meyering, 2008/11/07
- Re: [PATCH]: ls: add --user-format option for user defined format, James Youngman, 2008/11/08
- Re: [PATCH]: ls: add --user-format option for user defined format, Ondřej Vašík, 2008/11/10
- Re: [PATCH]: ls: add --user-format option for user defined format,
Pádraig Brady <=
- Re: [PATCH]: ls: add --user-format option for user defined format, Ondřej Vašík, 2008/11/20
- Re: [PATCH]: ls: add --user-format option for user defined format, Jim Meyering, 2008/11/20
- Re: [PATCH]: ls: add --user-format option for user defined format, Pádraig Brady, 2008/11/20
- Re: [PATCH]: ls: add --user-format option for user defined format, Ondřej Vašík, 2008/11/20
- Re: [PATCH]: ls: add --user-format option for user defined format, Paul Eggert, 2008/11/21
- Re: [PATCH]: ls: add --user-format option for user defined format, Jim Meyering, 2008/11/21
- Re: [PATCH]: ls: add --user-format option for user defined format, Jim Meyering, 2008/11/22
- Re: [PATCH]: ls: add --user-format option for user defined format, Bob Proulx, 2008/11/24
- Re: [PATCH]: ls: add --user-format option for user defined format, martin f krafft, 2008/11/25