A Generation Lost in the Bazaar - Poul-Henning Kamp article

[phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org]

> On 12-08-22 06:37 PM, phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote:
>> What happens when you do ls -d? You get '.'
> [snip]
>> In other words, if you use ls -d, it tells you 'you are in the current
>> directory', or more colloquially: you are where you are. That's not a
>> huge
>> amount of information.
>
> Definitely not what one would call useful information. No matter where you
> are, you are always in the current directory.  ;-)
>
> All it takes is for someone to be annoyed enough at a missing feature for
> them to go in and add the feature. So, where is the patch, Peter.  ;-)
>
> Sometimes you can be in for a bit of a battle to get changes in to long
> standing programs. 'ls -d */' while not that intuitive works well. I
> learned
> something new today. :-)
>

I wonder how many shell scripts would break if you changed the operation
of ls -d? You'd have to make a new option.

Peter


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