ls(1) new command line options '-/' and '-%': CIFS system attributes support [PSARC/2007/394 FastTrack timeout 07/11/2007]

[Nicolas Williams]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 06:09:49PM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote:
> One has to know what the underlying filesystem actually is to know what 
> output style you will get from -v and -V (UFS,TMPFS,NFSv3 will give very 
> different output than NFSv4 and ZFS) means that parsing the output of 
> ls(1) is very complex and IMO unlikely to be reliable anyway.

OT: This is why a new command would be good, but I agree that as the
    current reigning human-oriented interface for listing directories
    and file attributes all these extensions need to be applied to
    ls(1).