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suggestion for: info ls

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From: Günter Essers <guenter.essers <at> posteo.de>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: suggestion for: info ls
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 19:51:10 +0000

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Hi,

though here

https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/ls-invocation.html

I had read "Later options override earlier options that are 
incompatible", at first I was a bit surprised about the different output 
for 'ls -lC' and 'ls -Cl'. (I contacted your website documenting GNU 
coreutils 9.1.)

u <at> host$ mkdir dummy
u <at> host$ cd dummy/
u <at> host$ touch file1
u <at> host$ ls -lC
file1
u <at> host$ ls -Cl
insgesamt 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 u u 0 23. Nov 20:31 file1

Would a remark in the manual be an exaggeration and too fussy?

My working environment: GNU coreutils 8.32, Debian 11.5.

I hope not having wasted your time. Regards	
Günter

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Message #10 received at 59535-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Günter Essers <guenter.essers <at> posteo.de>,
 59535-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: suggestion for: info ls
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 13:19:52 +0000

On 23/11/2022 19:51, Günter Essers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> though here
> 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/ls-invocation.html
> 
> I had read "Later options override earlier options that are
> incompatible", at first I was a bit surprised about the different output
> for 'ls -lC' and 'ls -Cl'. (I contacted your website documenting GNU
> coreutils 9.1.)
> 
> u <at> host$ mkdir dummy
> u <at> host$ cd dummy/
> u <at> host$ touch file1
> u <at> host$ ls -lC
> file1
> u <at> host$ ls -Cl
> insgesamt 0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 u u 0 23. Nov 20:31 file1
> 
> Would a remark in the manual be an exaggeration and too fussy?
> 
> My working environment: GNU coreutils 8.32, Debian 11.5.
> 
> I hope not having wasted your time. Regards	

It's a good suggestion, which has actually already been implemented:
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/1625916a1

Note the web page is generated from the info pages of the latest release.
It's just your distro is using an old release at this stage.

Marking this as done.

thanks,
Pádraig

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