Re: ls -l format changed ?
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 01:30:20PM +0400, 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.
man ls. look at --time-style. Also check the info page. I'm not
convinced that I'm going to leave the debian default this way but...
> I've used to use
>
> ls -l xxx | awk '{print($11)}'
>
> to dereference symlinks from shell scripts.
...that's fundamentally broken. You *should not* depend on
locale-dependent output. You'll have somewhat better luck depending on
the output of the "C" locale, which is more standardized. (But such a
dependency will still not necessarily be portable and doing this is not
recommended.)
--
Mike Stone
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