GNU bug report logs - #10013
[ls] document origin of name

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Ian Bruntlett <ianbruntlett <at> hotmail.com>

Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:23:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch, wontfix

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 10013 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Ian Bruntlett <ianbruntlett <at> hotmail.com>
Cc: 10013 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10013: man ls
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:36:37 -0700

On 11/10/2011 11:22 AM, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
> Do you think it would be a worthwhile thing to let people know directly that ls is short for "list sorted"?

I'm not sure whether modifying the .x templates to list historical 
trivia is worth the effort for the man pages, but it would certainly be 
worth mentioning this mnemonic in the info pages.  Would you care to 
submit a patch?

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Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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