Re: ls bug?

[Jim Meyering]

"David Favro" <address@hidden> wrote:
> I am running FSF ls version 5.2.1 on Fedora Core 2 (i.e. Linux
> distribution) -- it is the binary version of ls that was distributed
> with  the Fedora Core 2 Linux distribution.  The --format=vertical
> option seems  to me to be broken: it is documented to be the same as
> -C, but in addition  to not producing the same output, it produces
> seemingly erroneous output  (output shown below).
...
> /etc/rc.d % ls -C
> init.d  rc  rc0.d  rc1.d  rc2.d  rc3.d  rc4.d  rc5.d  rc6.d  rc.local
> rc.sysinit
> /etc/rc.d % ls --format=vertical
> (null)                           init.d
> (null)                           rc
> (null)                           rc0.d
...

Thanks for the report.
Would you please see if you can reproduce the problem
using ls built from these unmodified sources?

  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.gz
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.bz2

I'm pretty sure the version that comes with RH/Fedora includes
significant patches.