On Feb 12, 2008 1:22 PM, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steven Schubiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I hacked up a prototype of ls with the possibility of specifying > > a format string that currently solely defines the order of items. > > Thanks for working on this. > However, before you invest more time in it, please look at > how GNU find handles its -printf predicate and see if it > is feasible to share parts of that code.
If this functionality is useful to coreutils, I'm happy to refactor the findutils code so that it's reusable. However, there are a small number of format directives that don't seem to be usefully sharable. For example, %d, %P, and %H. The existing find code is also running out of format specifiers; I've been considering a keyword-oriented variant like %(hardlinkcount)d for a while. That at least would be a little more extensible. On the other hand, refactoring the code would probably only be worthwhile if the result would not be reused. James. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
