ls output

[David Henderson]

On 05/12/2011 12:20 PM, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 5:42 PM, David Henderson
> <dhenderson at digital-pipe.com>  wrote:
>> On 05/12/2011 11:07 AM, Bob Dunlop wrote:
>>> I think the problem is that -A does not mean what you expect.  It's a
>>> modified version of -a which shows all hidden files except "." and "..".
>>>
>>> The problem is expressing these concepts concisely in what is already a
>>> very big help message.  Perhaps:
>>>          -A      Don't list . and ..
>>> should read:
>>>          -A      Don't show . and ..
>>>
>>> The difference between list and show is subtle but it consumes no bytes
>>> and is a small step in the right direction.
>>>
>> I checked the coreutils 'ls --help' and it gives the exact same description
>> of '-A' as busybox does.  Perhaps a better help description would be "same
>> as -a without . and ..".  :)
> Current git --help:
>
> $ ./busybox ls --help
> BusyBox v1.19.0.git (2011-05-12 13:14:08 CEST) multi-call binary.
>
> Usage: ls [-1AaCxdLHRFplinsehrSXvctu] -w WIDTH [FILE]...
>
> List directory contents
>
> Options:
> 	-1	One column output
> 	-a	Include entries which start with .
> 	-A	Like -a, but exclude . and ..
> 	-C	List by columns
> 	-x	List by lines
> 	-d	List directory entries instead of contents
> 	-L	Follow symlinks
> 	-H	Follow symlinks on command line only
> 	-R	Recurse
> 	-F	Append indicator (one of */=@|) to entries
> 	-p	Append indicator (one of /=@|) to entries
> 	-l	Long listing format
> 	-i	List inode numbers
> 	-n	List numeric UIDs and GIDs instead of names
> 	-s	List allocated blocks
> 	-e	List full date and time
> 	-h	List sizes in human readable format (1K 243M 2G)
> 	-r	Sort in reverse order
> 	-S	Sort by size
> 	-X	Sort by extension
> 	-v	Sort by version
> 	-c	With -l: sort by ctime
> 	-t	With -l: sort by mtime
> 	-u	With -l: sort by atime
> 	-w N	Assume the terminal is N columns wide
> 	--color[={always,never,auto}]	Control coloring
>
> We still have some problems. Such as -p not being compatible
> with upstream - it should only add / suffix...
>

Yeah, I coreutils only has -p providing the '/' for directories and no 
other characters for any other file types.  Any chance of getting 
'--hide' implemented?