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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

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  • This came up [freebsd.org] recently on the freebsd-current list and the conclusion was that not only do you have to turn off statting each file (no -l), you also have to turn off sorting of the results list. This is ls -f in FreeBSD.

    -Dom

    • That's a -1, not a -l. The reason I added -1 to the test was to make sure none of the ls versions was spending extra time trying to compute the number of filenames that could fit on a line or whatever. (And also because my little hacked-up Perl version couldn't do that.)

      I posted to the GNU coreutils (combination of fileutils, which includes ls, and two other packages) bugs mailing list, and they responded by asking the version of my GNU ls and my OS. Turns out ls from GNU coreutils 5.0 (my version) has this problem, but the latest version did not. As always, the solution always seems to be to upgrade. :)

      Yikes. I'm the only person I've ever known who has filed a bug report on ls!

      --
      J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
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