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From: | P |
Subject: | Re: ls -l --no-total |
Date: | Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:06:23 +0000 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040124 |
Felipe Kellermann wrote:
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 5:39am +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:> Did I mention ls should have a --no-total option > to remove those annoying > total 1120 > without needing to pipe to a filter. Another possibility would be to output the `total' to stderr. The horror, why do people come up with these silly ideas? `total NNNNN' is not a error message, and doesn't belong on stderr.I've seen other programs printing only informative messages to stderr. And doing a find + fgrep I can even see coreutils programs doing so.
bash is the one that annoys me most. It puts errors AND THE PROMPT to stderr. I's a very minimal patch to change this (allowing one to automatically colour all errors from bash and child programs red for e.g.), but it was rejected with no reason :-( -- Pádraig Brady - http://www.pixelbeat.org --
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