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Still defaults to the unreadable multicolumn view. Yuck! Why is this the default in ls? Why would anyone keep this awful default in another tool? It's so heinou
by earthboundkid 5y ago
Still defaults to the unreadable multicolumn view. Yuck! Why is this the default in ls? Why would anyone keep this awful default in another tool? It's so heinous.
- anyfoo 5y agoI don't get why that's a problem, it allows you to see many many more files at first glance. Back when I switched from DOS (which does have the single column view as default for the "dir" command) to Linux, it was quite a revelation. The overwhelming amount of time I don't need to see ownership/permission and modification time?
- cb321 5y agoWith `lc` you can have customized format strings so that you can see "size name", or "perms size name" or any subset/reordering of the report columns. And all of these are rolled up into a multi-column layout, though you can control how many columns you want with, e.g. lc -n3. (Never mind the glob-abbreviation ability which while slow allows packing an enormous number of names per terminal row.)
- earthboundkid 5y agoBecause it's unreadable, and virtually every directory has more files than fit in one screen, so you either read it in an unnatural left→right up→down direction or you read it in the natural up→down left→right direction and keep scrolling back up and down. It's just a terrible default that really has no use in a text environment.