[Eug-lug] shell evilness

[Fred James]

Patrick R. Wade wrote:

>larry price wrote:
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>>the disappearance of the -v option from other forms of date seems
>>counterproductive.
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>Well, of course!  It's GNU, it needs to be gratuitously different!  Like
>the lack of the -o option in ls to display filesystem flags, one of my
>favorite GNU deletions!
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Patrick R. Wade
Sounds very FreeBSD centric to me - I have always found ls -o defined as 
(see below) - or did I misunderstand?
Regards
Fred James

     -o   The same as -l, except that the group is not printed.