Mail Archives: cygwin/1999/02/26/10:42:40
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
JIC_SUBJ.COM;13 JIC_SUBJ.COM;12 K.MAI;1 LO.JOU;1
LOGIN.COM;11 LOGIN.COM;10 LOGIN.COM;9 LOGINCOM.SAV;1
MAIL$1FEC834100050098.MAI;1 MAIL$20C80C5A00050098.MAI;1
MAIL$5F92D82100050099.MAI;1 MAIL$84EC0F7100050099.MAI;1
MAIL$9058647A0005009B.MAI;1 MAIL$D99B0E9700050099.MAI;1
MAIL$D9D2796100050099.MAI;1 MAIL$DA04301A00050099.MAI;1
MAIL$DA3A1E5600050099.MAI;1 MAIL$DCC4A43B00050099.MAI;1
MAIL$DCC94E7A00050099.MAI;1 MAIL$F5B2F5170005009B.MAI;1
MAIL.MAI;1 MAIL_20203993_SEND.TMP;1
MAIL_206005A6_SEND.TMP;1 MAIN.TPU$JOURNAL;8 MAIN.TPU$JOURNAL;7
MAIN.TPU$JOURNAL;6 NEW_TXT.TPU$JOURNAL;2
NEW_TXT.TPU$JOURNAL;1 P1.;1 RJEOUT1.TMP;1
RJETMP.TMP;1 SDF.MAI;1 SDFSDF.MAI;1 SENDIT.COM;5
SENDIT.COM;4 SENDIT.COM;3 SIG.SIG;2 SIG.SIG;1
SNATPRINT.LIS;3 SNATPRINT.LIS;2 SNATPRINT.LIS;1 WASTEBASKET.MAI;1
X.X;1 _ALIASES.TPU$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.
Thanks. BTW, I love bash. If I didn't, I would not have written at all.
jose
----- Original Message -----
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
To: Jose I. Cabrera <jicman AT cinops DOT xerox DOT com>
Cc: cygwin users <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 1999 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: ls and long file names
>---"Jose I. Cabrera" <jicman AT cinops DOT xerox DOT com> wrote:
>8<
>> Does anyone have any kind of idea on how to fix this? I tried all
>kinds of switches and got no different result.
>8<
>
>This is the intended behavior. What is it you want fixed? The only
>solution I can see is for you to always display one file per line. To
>do this you would do `ls -1'. This is a -one not a lower case el.
>==
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