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]>
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| Organization | UCLA Computer Science Department |
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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....)