Re: misc/40977: /var/backups/work/device.current is overly sensitive to ls(1) columnar alignment

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/40977; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/40977: /var/backups/work/device.current is overly
 sensitive to ls(1) columnar alignment
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 22:38:47 +0200

 On Mon, 07 Sep 2009, David Laight wrote:
 >  Not to mention the problems of spaces in user/group names and odd
 >  characters in filenames.
 >  
 >  So maybe 'ls -nb' should be used.
 >  (Netbsd's ls only seems to have gained -b recently!)
 
 What about extending "find -ls" to take options?  I mean, adding a new
 primary to find(1) that works a lot like "-ls" but takes options.  Then
 ew could use
 
        find -s ... -ls-with-options -ldgTqnb
 
 and eliminate the xargs and sort.
 
 --apb (Alan Barrett)