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I 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 vi
by anyfoo 5y ago
I 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.