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"I think his point is not that "ls" needs less flags, it's that it needs no flags." Then don't use the flags. The default bare 'ls <wildcard>' is sane 99% of t
by luser001 14y ago
"I think his point is not that "ls" needs less flags, it's that it needs no flags."
Then don't use the flags. The default bare 'ls <wildcard>' is sane 99% of the time for me, and I consider myself a junior power user.
- adavies42 14y agosame here. in fact i'd call it a power law--90% `ls`, 9% `ls -l`, .9% `ls -ltr`, .09% `ls -lhSr`, .009% `ls -d` .0009% `ls -i`, etc. which suggests the default behavior, and arrangement of the flags, is very well designed. (if i could change one thing, it'd be to make all the sorts ascending by default....)