bug#79710: [PATCH] ls: add --count and --count-list options to display file, directory, and symlink counts and counts with list of contents

Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2025-10-28 09:52, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Can you give example outputs from the new options.
> Note new options to ls have a high bar.

Yes, my first reaction was, "Why do we need a --count option when we 
have 'ls | wc'"?

Whatever else is in the patch, it needs an item in NEWS briefly 
explaining why it's needed. (I didn't read the patch as I was hoping 
someone else would review it....)
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