bug#21325: ls : feature request --width=zero

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 08/23/2015 01:35 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Erik Auerswald wrote:
>> an explicit "Inf" keyword is still better than some number that
>> relies on system limits
> 
> With the latest patch, there are no system limits; you can use as big a 
> number 
> as you like.  I'm aware of the "use 0 to denote infinity" tradition, but I'm 
> still leery of using a valid width value to denote infinity; I'd rather use 
> some 
> other string.

I'm not sure what's the gain of having all file names in one huge line;
anyway, why not simply ...

  $ touch a b c
  $ ls -1 | paste -s -d' '
  a b c

Have a nice day,
Berny