From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Nov 27 19:54:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0B1137B405 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 19:54:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a127.otenet.gr [212.205.215.127]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id fAS3sp818387 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 05:54:51 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAS3sqt25086 for doc@freebsd.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 05:54:52 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 05:54:52 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: minor ls.1 clarification Message-ID: <20011128035451.GA25056@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message