Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 12:26:11 -0400 From: "Richard Secor" <rsecor@seqlogic.com> To: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav_?=" <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no> Cc: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: bin/1315 Message-ID: <005301bd6ed4$8818f120$ceac98ce@spaceball1.seqlogic.com>
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wny not do both so that say -b1 uses octal and -b2 behaves like AT&T Unices ? -----Original Message----- From: Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no> To: stable@freebsd.org <stable@freebsd.org> Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 12:07 PM Subject: bin/1315 >Following a (two-year old) suggestion from Zahemszky Gabor, I have >added a '-b' option to ls(1). When this option is used, ls will >display unprintable characters in octal (in the form "\xxx"). Note >that unlike e.g. Solaris, it will not use C escapes (e.g. \n for >newline), just plain octal. > >So far, I've only committed this to current. Before I commit to >stable, does anybody have any comments on this change, or requests for >further changes? Should I make the -b option behave exactly as in AT&T >Unices, or is it OK with just octal? > >-- >Noone else has a .sig like this one. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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