Re: `ls -1s` doesn't print "total"

Jan Schaumann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Valery Ushakov <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I'd say -1 is the option for "the output is meant to read
> > programmatically" and it's antonym is -C for "the output for human
> > consumption".  If ls outputs to a pipe it infers -1 automatically
> > unless -C is specified (cf. "command ls | more").  The total is "for
> > human consumption" (phrased as "the output is to a terminal"), so when
> > you specify -1 you turn that off.
> 
> Yeah, that's certainly a possible interpretation.  In
> that case, though, the manual page should say so.

I've just updated the manual page accordingly.

As an aside, GNU ls(1) prints "total" with '-s1';
FreeBSD ls(1) does not; macOS ls(1) prints "total"
with '-1' as well as when not writing to a terminal.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

-Jan