Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 05:54:52 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: minor ls.1 clarification Message-ID: <20011128035451.GA25056@hades.hell.gr>
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The ls(1) manpage says at one point:
-B Force printing of non-graphic characters in file names as \xxx,
where xxx is the numeric value of the character in octal.
Perhaps it's me being in `lame user mode', but the manpage has no
hints as to what a `graphic' character would be. How about the
following minor clarification (partly inspired by green@FreeBSD.org):
Index: ls/ls.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/bin/ls/ls.1,v
retrieving revision 1.55
diff -2 -u -r1.55 ls.1
--- ls/ls.1 26 Nov 2001 22:21:10 -0000 1.55
+++ ls/ls.1 28 Nov 2001 03:48:47 -0000
@@ -78,5 +78,6 @@
Always set for the super-user.
.It Fl B
-Force printing of non-graphic characters in file names as \\xxx,
+Force printing of non-printable characters (according to the current
+locale settings) in file names as \\xxx,
where xxx is the numeric value of the character in octal.
.It Fl C
Some way to refer to ctype(3) would be nice too, so if you have a
better idea on how to word this, I'm open to suggestions :)
-giorgos
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