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Re: ls -l --no-total
From: |
Alfred M. Szmidt |
Subject: |
Re: ls -l --no-total |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Feb 2005 20:53:19 +0100 |
I've seen other programs printing only informative messages to
stderr.
Depends on what you call a "informative message", a warning should go
to stderr. Normal output should go to stdout. `total NNNN' is normal
output, hence it should go to stdout.
I know this behavior is standardized but IIRC I've already read
about (old) implementations that printed the `total' to stderr.
And those implementations where broken.