Jim Meyering schrieb: > Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Thomas Guettler wrote: >> >>> Thank you for being interested. I wrote a patch which makes the slash >>> optional: >>> >>> src/du --help: >>> ... >>> -z, --dir-with-slash append a slash to directories. >>> >> I don't think it's worth an option TBH. >> How about we do this iff POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is not set? >> > > Hi Pádraig, > > I don't like to encourage the use of POSIXLY_CORRECT, > and fear such a change might end up doing that. > Me, too. I want to add slashes only if the user explicitly asks for it.
> Besides, the cost[*]/benefit ratio of adding trailing slashes by > default looks way too high. > > I agree. > I'm very dubious about adding this as an option. > Do you really think an option is warranted for this, > considering you can already get the desired behavior > with a small wrapper, as I demonstrated: > > Since old versions of du didn't support --files-from I already wrote a small implementation in python some time ago. But it would be nice to have it in GNU du. > By the way, someone's mail server (Thomas', I think) refused mail from my > IP address last time, and I'm not bothering to reroute to accommodate it. > I forwarded your complain to our provider. I am sorry. If you think that a one letter option is not worth it, I am happy with only a long option, too. Thomas -- Thomas Güttler, http://www.tbz-pariv.de/ Bernsdorfer Str. 210-212, 09126 Chemnitz, Tel.: 0371/5347-917 TBZ-PARIV GmbH Geschäftsführer: Dr. Reiner Wohlgemuth Sitz der Gesellschaft: Chemnitz Registergericht: Chemnitz HRB 8543 _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils