> I think a better solution is if we can turn off the new "feature" > of adapting the column widths to the data. It is simple and clean. > Both this and your suggestion would only work with GNU ls, so in that > regard neither one has an advantage. > > Meyering, what do you think?
Ideally ls would accept a new --format=FMT option that would work like find's printf format string. Then it'd be easy to add a new option to make ls use a format string with fixed widths to restore the old behavior. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils