Re: ls -l --no-total

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Felipe Kellermann wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 5:39am  +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>
>
> >   > Did I mention ls should have a --no-total option
> >   > to remove those annoying
> >   > total 1120
> >   > without needing to pipe to a filter.
> >
> >   Another possibility would be to output the `total' to stderr.
> >
> > The horror, why do people come up with these silly ideas?  `total
> > NNNNN' is not a error message, and doesn't belong on stderr.
>
>
> I've seen other programs printing only informative messages to stderr.
> And doing a find + fgrep I can even see coreutils programs doing so.

bash is the one that annoys me most.
It puts errors AND THE PROMPT to stderr.
I's a very minimal patch to change this
(allowing one to automatically colour all errors
from bash and child programs red for e.g.),
but it was rejected with no reason :-(

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