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

[Joerg Schilling]

Casper.Dik at sun.com 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 shells?
>
> (sh/ ksh, tcsh, bash, zsh all worked for me)

My bsh needs quoting and there was another mail from a person who did report a 
similar problem.


Jörg

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