6 Mar
2020
6 Mar
'20
3:56 a.m.
On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 2:51 PM Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Wed, 4 Mar 2020, Ken Thompson via TUHS wrote:
FreeBSD wouldn't need -, if there were a good filter to add , to large
numbers... Some of the proliferation of options has been due to a lack of
proper building-blocks....
Warner
do i get a prize:
ls -tj
/bin/ls: illegal option -- j
usage: ls [-ABCFGHLOPRSTUWabcdefghiklmnopqrstuwx1] [file ...]
Another candidate for option-cleansing... Interesting; I get different
options with the Mac and FreeBSD:
Mac:
usage: ls [-ABCFGHLOPRSTUWabcdefghiklmnopqrstuwx1] [file ...]
FreeBSD:
usage: ls [-ABCFGHILPRSTUWZabcdfghiklmnopqrstuwxy1,] [-D format]
[file ...]
So FreeBSD has added up "y,D:" (in getopt(3)-speak); my eyes are burning...