Re: Bug#505979: ls output format option

[Jim Meyering]

martin f krafft <address@hidden> wrote:
> Package: coreutils
> Version: 6.10-6
> Severity: wishlist
> File: /bin/ls
>
> I wish ls supported something like
>
>   ls --format='%n %s %u %t'
>
> or somesuch so that I can select which columns I actually want in
> the output, and still have their width be formatted properly as ls
> does now. In fact, such an option could probably replace many of the
> other options, like -g or -s.

Then please chime in on the recent upstream thread
discussing a proposed patch to do just that:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/14977