On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Gunnar Ritter wrote:
Henry Spencer <yyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Gunnar Ritter wrote:
The ls utility is designed to produce output containing one pathname
per line and is very frequently used for that purpose.
Maybe, but scripts that do so are heavily broken.
Oddly enough, they are used -- successfully -- by very large numbers of
people for a wide range of purposes every day.
Driving without seat belt also works for many people. It actually does
not even do the slightest harm to nearly all of them during their entire
life. But this does not make it correct.
Driving the family compact on approved highways works for most
people. Taking it off road is permissible, but not wise.
Filenames containing newlines are permissible; that doesn't make it
wise to use them.
It is, however, totally irrelevant to the argument of whether ls
should have an -A option as well as -a. (I'm all for it.)
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