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Date:      Fri, 8 Mar 2002 12:23:55 -0800
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com>
To:        The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org>
Cc:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sorting and Matching options for ls(1)
Message-ID:  <20020308122355.D57999@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020308200652.GB547@lenny.anarcat.dyndns.org>; from anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org on Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 03:06:52PM -0500
References:  <3C862030.9080108@softweyr.com> <20020306131141.A69228@blossom.cjclark.org> <p05101522b8aeacb55495@[128.113.24.47]> <20020308113823.B57999@blossom.cjclark.org> <20020308200652.GB547@lenny.anarcat.dyndns.org>

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On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 03:06:52PM -0500, The Anarcat wrote:
> On Fri Mar 08, 2002 at 11:38:23AM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 01:03:45PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > > At 1:11 PM -0800 3/6/02, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> > > >Since we're on the topic of ls(1) having too few options, what I'd
> > > >really like is a switch to print the creation, modified, and access
> > > >times together. Basically, dumping the whole stat(2) structure would
> > > >be nice (some other UNIXes have a separate command to do this).
> > > 
> > > I like the suggestion for -M and -S for 'ls'.  I also like the
> > > idea of something that could dump the entire stat structure, but
> > > that strikes me as being better as a separate utility.  What do
> > > the other unixes call their command which does this?
> > 
> > IIRC, the first time I ran into such a thing was IRIX, and I found it
> > very useful. Here is their stat(1M) manpage,
> > 
> >   http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=0650&db=man&fname=/usr/share/catman/a_man/cat1/stat.z
> 
> And there's of course sysutils/stat.
> 
> I would be for including this in the base system. It is extremely
> useful.

That's pretty much it. Some features of it I like and some I
don't. But the problem with that code is that it is in somewhat of a
licensing/copyright limbo. It looks like it was grabbed off of
Usenet.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org

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