Re: null separated ls output option

[rain1]

On 2017-06-01 04:45, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 31/05/17 15:24, address@hidden wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > Please consider accepting this patch I wrote which adds a new -0 
> > feature
> > to ls.
> >
> > This emits the entries separated by null bytes (similar to
> > /proc/$PID/cmdline) which creates a completely unambiguous and simple
> > output format that doesn't involve any quotation or escaping (like ls 
> > -1
> > and ls -Q1) by using a separator which cannot occur inside a filename
> > (\0). Inside emacs eshell for example, the output is nicely human
> > readable with the null separator displayed as ^@.
>
> Thanks for the patch.
> This was previously discussed as referenced at:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rejected_requests.html#ls
>
> cheers,
> Pádraig.


It says

> Existing tools like find(1) were thought sufficient

but find does not support sorting by date which ls does.

I hope this patch can be reconsidered for inclusion.