Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:09:13 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ls versions and the -G switch Message-ID: <20000921140913.A9141@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <39CA76BE.60859E20@planetwe.com>; from drew@planetwe.com on Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 03:59:42PM -0500 References: <39CA76BE.60859E20@planetwe.com>
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* Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com> [000921 13:59] wrote: > I have two FreeBSD boxes - one that will accept the -G switch for ls, > and one that won't. I'm curious about the differences in the versions of > ls regarding this. Here's the uname outputs: > > accepts ls -G: > FreeBSD *.*.* 4.0-STABLE FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #1: Thu May 11 20:41:07 CDT > 2000 root@*.*.*:/usr/src/sys/compile/* i386 > > doesn't accept ls -G: > FreeBSD *.*.* 4.0-STABLE FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #0: Mon Jun 12 18:45:29 CDT > 2000 root@*.*.*:/usr/src/sys/compile/* i386 > > Both of the man pages look the same except for the mention of G as a > choice for a switch. Sometime between May 11 20:41:07 CDT 2000 and Mon Jun 12 18:45:29 CDT 2000 someone merged in the -G option for ls. These things happen. :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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