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0 pointslovelymono3y ago0 comments

They could have used

  ls -A -1 -p

which should result in the same output.

-A is like -a but will not print . and .. directories.

-1 prints one file per line.

-p appends / to directories.

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That's GNU ls; AFAICT -1 and -p aren't POSIX so might not work on other unix-likes (most prominently Darwin, but also the BSDs)

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009696899/utilities/ls... lists both -p and -1. And while -p is marked as an XSI extension, both Darwin and all modern BSD distributions implement it.

Huh, good catch. Not sure why `man 1p ls` didn't give me that:\

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