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bug#36220: ls -l: maddening mixed left right justifications with numeric
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Pádraig Brady |
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bug#36220: ls -l: maddening mixed left right justifications with numeric ids |
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Date: |
Mon, 17 Jun 2019 16:12:26 +0100 |
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On 17/06/19 15:06, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 15/06/19 03:35, Dan Jacobson wrote:
>> Some files might only have numeric user ids,
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>> # ls -l
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 777 root 0 06-15 10:14 a
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 777777 0 06-15 10:11 b
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 06-15 10:12 c
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 777 0 06-15 10:12 d
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> I guess the numeric IDs are usually the minority in the mixed case,
> so it would be best to align left in that case?
> Are mixed names/IDs a common case for you?
> I.E. is it worth worrying about this?
> It's easy enough to fix, but it would be nice
> to know if it was a common issue, as I've not encountered it at least.
Patch attached to do as described above
ls-align-id.diff
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