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Re: ls and long file names
- To: "Heribert Dahms" <heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de>, <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
- Subject: Re: ls and long file names
- From: "Jose I. Cabrera" <jicman@cinops.xerox.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 20:23:35 -0500
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Thank you all.
jose
----- Original Message -----
From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de>
To: 'Jose I. Cabrera' <jicman@cinops.xerox.com>; <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
Cc: cygwin users <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Friday, February 26, 1999 7:02 PM
Subject: RE: ls and long file names
>Hi Jose,
>
>please see below!
>
>Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jose I. Cabrera [SMTP:jicman@cinops.xerox.com]
>> Sent: Friday, February 26, 1999 16:46
>> To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
>> Cc: cygwin users
>> Subject: Re: ls and long file names
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I agree that this is ls the intended behavior, but I thought that
>> there was a switch that would change this behavior and place
>> them according to file name sizes. Here is an example of VMS:
>>
>> $ dir
>>
>> Directory USER15:[JCABRERA]
>>
>> FILES_20200758.COM;1 FILES_20200758.OUT;1
>> FTPD.LOG;16 GAZ_OUT.TXT;1 JICMAN.DIR;1
>> JIC_SUBJ.COM;14
>> [Heribert] [snip]
>> X.X;1 _ALIASES.TPU$JOURNAL;1
>>
>> Total of 50 files.
>> $
>>
>> as you can see, there are different file name sizes and yet, VMS
>> places
>> them in columns, even though there are short names and long names.
>> I know what you are going to say, "Jose, move to MVS," but, could not
>> we have a switch that would make it this way? It does not have to be
>> the default, just a switch.
>>
>> [Heribert] Hey, X.X is *my* filename! And I like VMS, but want to
>> avoid MVS 8-)
>> VMS defaults to a TABs@20-like, max 4 columns behaviour. BTW, I use:
>> $ sh sym d*
>> DC == "DIRECTORY/NOHE/NOTR/NOTOT/COL=1/WI=FI=55/NOSIZE/DATE"
>> D*IRECT == "DIR/DAT/SIZE"
>> DN == "DIRECTORY/NOHE/NOTR/NOTOT/COL=1/WI=FI=80/NOSIZE/NODATE"
>>
>> I suggest you take the ls source and implement a, hmm, -4 switch...
>>
>> [Heribert] [snip]
>>
>
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