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.
Would you like to implement that?
If that's the solution you pref
> That would be rather unreliable, since it would need to figure out the
> number of spaces between fields in both the new output and the old
> buffer. The gains that we got from --dired would be lost.
> I won't accept this approach.
Of course, the filename part would be deter
>> That would be rather unreliable, since it would need to figure out the
>> number of spaces between fields in both the new output and the old
>> buffer. The gains that we got from --dired would be lost.
>> I won't accept this approach.
> Of course, the filename part would be determined just
Hi,
though it seems unlikely that nobody has seen this before if it
really is a bug, I can't explain the following behaviour:
dirdiff.tmp.1g: (shortened to prevent a linebreak)
snip
62-rw--- 1 ueberall users 7 Sep 25 21:24 ./file1
6d-rw--- 1 ueberall users 4 Sep
The following is a bit annoying when you want to install something as
a normal user, but just "ignore" any set permissions/owners/groups.
/usr/bin/install -c -o root -m 4755 mail.local
/home/update/ams/gnu-tools/gnu/stow/hurd//libexec/mail.local
/usr/bin/install: cannot change ownership of
`/hom
Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> Would it be possible to add some kind of a --ignore=TYPE (with short
> option -i), where TYPE is either `group', `mode', `owner' option that
> would ignore EPERM or such and just continue if it was specifed?
I think it would be better that if one is not root that the EPER
> Would it be possible to add some kind of a --ignore=TYPE (with
> short option -i), where TYPE is either `group', `mode', `owner'
> option that would ignore EPERM or such and just continue if it
> was specifed?
I think it would be better that if one is not root that the EPERM
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