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

Darren J Moffat Darren.Moffat at Sun.COM
Tue Jul 3 10:38:28 PDT 2007


Joerg Schilling wrote:
> 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 two shells currently in Solaris Express or other OpenSolaris 
distributions are those ?

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Darren J Moffat



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