[Eug-lug] shell evilness

[Patrick R. Wade]

Fred James wrote:
> Patrick R. Wade wrote:
> 
>> larry price wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> the disappearance of the -v option from other forms of date seems
>>> counterproductive.
>>>
>>>   
>>
>> 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!
>>  
>>
> Patrick R. Wade
> Sounds very FreeBSD centric to me - I have always found ls -o defined as
> (see below) - or did I misunderstand?

-o does do something in GNU ls, just something not very useful.  The
requirement to run

$ ls -l foo && lsattr foo

instead of

$ ls -ol foo

has annoyed me for a while, despite the fact that i began my *NIX life
with GNU utilities and came to BSD ones later.

-- 
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray,
Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right
answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of
confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
	-- Charles Babbage