I'm using:
creche. ls --version
ls (GNU fileutils) 4.0p
Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie.
Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
(BTW this is a stock RH 6.2 system. I didn't know they were shipping
fileutils prereleases. Did you ok that?)
On an internal Red Hat mailing list someone was noting that there were
so many ls options you could almost write `ls -<yourname>'.
The first bug is that none of my names has a meaning for ls :-), eg:
creche. ls -Tom
ls: invalid tab size: om
Ok, I'm kidding.
The real bug is that `ls -e' doesn't print a sensible error message.
Compare with `ls -y':
creche. ls -e
Try `ls --help' for more information.
creche. ls -y
ls: invalid option -- y
Try `ls --help' for more information.
`ls --help' doesn't say that `-e' is used for anything.
Tom
PS I'm ok if I use all lowercase, like `ls -tom'. In the olden days,
I hear, you were a wizard if you could tell what TECO would do if you
typed in your name. Nowadays I guess the wizards can predict ls
output. For instance I had no idea about `ls -m'. (BTW why would I
ever want that?)
