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

[Casper.Dik at sun.com]

>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.

Which shells?

(sh/ ksh, tcsh, bash, zsh all worked for me)

Casper