Dear developers,
I'm writing to ask for a small change in an already existing feature of "ls" command.
The switch is: -w, --width=COLS
Let it be possible to state size ZERO as being "infinity", for example:
(A)
ls -m -w0
(B)
ls -x --width=0
That will ensure that:
ls -m -w0 | wc -l
1
Meaning that ls will output a single line.
For now a workaround is just use a very big number for width, say -w10000, but this hack must be checked beforehand in any directory.
LSSIZE=1000; test $(ls -x -w$LSSIZE | wc -l) == 1 && echo size $LSSIZE ok || echo size $LSSIZE not ok
I hope :
* I could inspire you to understand the easy modification that's asked
* the usefulness of the modification
Thanks,
Beco
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Dr Beco
A.I. researcher
"I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant" -- Alan Greenspan