> There is another reason why this is evil. Doing this implies a stat operation
> (like -F) for every file. Try this on a slow or loaded NFS-server ...
> This should be OFF by default in any ls.

the -l switch adds to the evil.  besides doing a stat, it also looks up
user and group names.  if your lists are NIS-based, you can see a real
performace loss on something like   ls -l ~/..


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Hume Smith   <hclsmith@isisnet.com>