GNU bug report logs - #75916
Making ls(1)'s --format clearer

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault <at> gnu.org>

Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:02:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault <at> gnu.org>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Making ls(1)'s --format clearer
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 21:00:37 +0100

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Hello,

ls(1) says this about --format:

--format=WORD
       across  -x,  commas -m, horizontal -x, long -l, single-column -1,
       verbose -l, vertical -C

It was not clear at all for my students (and not for me either,
actually), that it's the words that should be used, and not the letters.

The attached patch makes this much more explicit:

--format=WORD where WORD can be
       across  (like  -x),  commas (like -m), horizontal (like -x), long
       (like -l), single-column (like -1), verbose (like  -l),  vertical
       (like -C)

Samuel

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