On 02 Feb 2016 07:17, Harald Dunkel wrote: > On 02/01/16 17:07, Pádraig Brady wrote: > > - Output can be pasted back in the shell for further processing > > This means that it useful only on a graphic terminal, for people > using a mouse, but it affects all users using "ls"
that's incorrect. screen/tmux/emacs and i'm sure more all have methods for selecting/copying/pasting chunks of text using only the keyboard. > > - Users can get back to the old format by adding -N to their ls alias > > Or they can use busybox, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and tons of others. then export the env var instead. this is not that big of a deal. -mike
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