Re: mv checks that fail...

[Jim Meyering]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> wrote:

>    Have you perhaps hacked ls.c so that it always prints the `author'
>    name?
>
> Nope, this is a pristine checkout from CVS.

Please tell me what output this gives:

  mkdir d; cd d; touch x; ls -gG .

I think we were talking about a failure of mv/part-symlink.
That test runs `ls -gG .' and depends on the format of the width
of all fields before the file name.