/bin/ls -T option logic/doc

John De Boskey · *nix forums beginner Joined: 01 Apr 2002 Posts: 3

Hi,

The -T option to ls specifies to display complete time
information. However, this option only has effect when the
-l (ell) option is also specfied. Two alternatives:

- Update the manpage to reflect the dependancy as is already
done with other options.

- Update the -T option processing to automatically imply
the -l option.

I believe the manpage update is probably the safest, but
I don't know if it is the most correct. I can't seem to find
any standards doc on this issue related to -T.

Pointers?

Thanks!
John

ps: Also noted in the ls.1 diff is a spelling correction which
can be done regardless of -T.

Index: ls.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/bin/ls/ls.1,v
retrieving revision 1.62
diff -u -r1.62 ls.1
--- ls.1 9 Jan 2002 13:29:39 -0000 1.62
+++ ls.1 1 Apr 2002 03:51:35 -0000
@@ -137,8 +137,12 @@
.It Fl R
Recursively list subdirectories encountered.
.It Fl T
-Display complete time information for the file, including
-month, day, hour, minute, second, and year.
+When used with the
+.Fl l
+(lowercase letter
+.Dq ell )
+option, display complete time information for the file, including
+month, day, hour, minute, second, and year.
.It Fl W
Display whiteouts when scanning directories.
.It Fl Z
@@ -167,7 +171,7 @@
.Pq Fl l
format output.
.It Fl h
-When used wih the
+When used with the
.Fl l
option, use unit suffixes: Byte, Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte
and Petabyte in order to reduce the number of digits to three or less
Index: ls.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/bin/ls/ls.c,v
retrieving revision 1.56
diff -u -r1.56 ls.c
--- ls.c 19 Feb 2002 00:05:50 -0000 1.56
+++ ls.c 1 Apr 2002 03:53:50 -0000
@@ -263,6 +263,8 @@
break;
case 'T':
f_sectime = 1;
+ f_longform = 1;
+ f_singlecol = 0;
break;
case 't':
f_timesort = 1;

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