Re: "ls" spacing between columns

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   $ ls -ld /tmp
   drwxrwxrwt  13 root root 8192 2004-04-11 01:48 /tmp

   GNU "ls" could output this:

   $ ls -ld /tmp
   drwxrwxrwt 13 root root 8192 2004-04-11 01:48 /tmp

Jim already made a note about this:

,----
| Maybe you didn't notice that the mode string actually
| consists of 11 characters, the last of which is often a space?
| Note the `<optional alternate access method flag> below.
| It's a `+' for e.g., a file with an ACL.
| 
|  XSI             The file mode written under the -l,-g, -n, and -ooptions 
shall consist of the following format:
|                  "%c%s%s%s%c", <entry type>, <owner permissions>,
|                       <group permissions>, <other permissions>,
|                      <optional alternate access method flag>
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