RE: ls -l format changed ?
On 01-Jul-2002 Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> Seems that 'ls' from the latest fileutils package changed the default
> format for 'ls -l'.
> Now date and time is printed in different format.
>
> I've used to use
>
> ls -l xxx | awk '{print($11)}'
>
> to dereference symlinks from shell scripts. This no longer works, because
> now date and time takes different number or fields in ls -l output. Even
> worse, it is non-constant now: sometimes 1, sometimes 2 -- previous version
> always used 3.
>
> Well, my own scripts are my own problems.
> But is this sort of breaking backward compatability really necessary for
> Debian?
>
The fields now depend more heavily on the value of LC_ALL and LANG, and not for
the better it seems.
$ LC_ALL="C" ls -l vmlinuz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Feb 26 00:07 vmlinuz ->
boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18
$ LC_ALL="en_US" ls -l vmlinuz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 02-26 00:07 vmlinuz ->
boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18
note the time lost a field.
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