> -T seems useful doesn't it? How else would you get that info? The long (-l) format already provides the month, day, hour and minutes. -T adds only seconds an

> -T seems useful doesn't it? How else would you get that info? The long (-l) format already provides the month, day, hour and minutes. -T adds only seconds and the year. No utility can possibly provide every format option that someone might find useful. If you really needed that format, and ls were leaner, you would need to write a script (in whatever language). > And -x is a personal preference. Basic utilities shouldn't include so many options that are variants for personal preferences. > None of those seem especially useless. I don't think that they are outrageously useless, but let's set the bar higher. The core utilities should be, in my opinion, much much leaner than they are.