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

[Joerg Schilling]

Don Cragun <don.cragun at sun.com> wrote:

> >The syntax "-/" seems strange to me but I guess no stranger than what we 
> >already have with "-@".  When I saw the title of the case and this new 
> >option I first match this to "dir /p" from MS-DOS era.
> >
> >As an aside had I been choosing a non alphanumeric char for this I would 
> >have picked '$' since it has to me some connection to system from other 
> >OSes that I've used.  But as I said just an aside.
>
> The project team considered -$, but quickly abandonded it due to the
> special handling users have to perform to keep '$' from being evaluated
> by the shells as a variable expansion request.

>From the other replies it seems to be obvious that -% is in the same state as it
nees quoting by at least 2 shells.

Jörg

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