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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2001-05-24 08:07:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2001-05-24 08:07:54 +0000 |
| commit | 774376d73110e02988a20cdceb9f22beabcb159e (patch) | |
| tree | 4a54314d04bca6e9390f15fc8231526018e690d6 /doc | |
| parent | 418c24dd7e65024b05f5a2f36ab449a44f736b5f (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-774376d73110e02988a20cdceb9f22beabcb159e.tar.xz | |
(ls invocation): Document more clearly what ls does when given no arguments.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/omni-utils.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/omni-utils.texi b/doc/omni-utils.texi index 5beb124b9..ce8c08aa4 100644 --- a/doc/omni-utils.texi +++ b/doc/omni-utils.texi @@ -4537,8 +4537,8 @@ For non-option command-line arguments that are directories, by default @code{ls} lists the contents of directories, not recursively, and omitting files with names beginning with @samp{.}. For other non-option arguments, by default @code{ls} lists just the file name. If no -non-option arguments are specified, @code{ls} lists the contents of the -current directory. +non-option argument is specified, @code{ls} operates on the current +directory, acting as if it had been invoked with a single argument of @samp{.}. By default, the output is sorted alphabetically. If standard output is a terminal, the output is in columns (sorted vertically) and control |