Re: --format flag

[Jim Meyering]

Bruce Korb <address@hidden> wrote:
>> No, more like the following: (warning, these are `made-up' format directives;
>> it'd take some careful thought to come up with proper choices):
>>
>>   ls --format="%M %I %U %G %B %D %f\n"
>>
>> Implementing something like that properly
>> would involve a significant amount of work.
>> If you're interested, look at how GNU find's -printf works.
>
> I do not believe it would be a significant amount of work:

If you can do it with an insignificant amount of work, that'd be great.
Have you just volunteered?  ;-)

>  http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/snprintfv (whenever that
> goes back online again).  Personally, I'd choose to avoid
> one letter cryptic entries and opt for:
>
>   ls --format="%w.n{mod} $w{inode} ${userid} ${username} ..."

I like the verbose names.
Are there really three different types of syntax: %w, $w{} and ${}?