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Re: An ls that does not understand --dired
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Tassilo Horn |
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Re: An ls that does not understand --dired |
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Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:00:46 +0200 |
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Ellen Taylor < ellen@nospam.invalid > writes:
Hi!
>> /bin/ls in Mac OS X 10.6.8 (and maybe more releases) does not
>> understand "--dired", only "-dired". Is there a way to make dired use
>> "-dired" instead of "--dired"? (Besides using gls from GNU
>> Coreutils.)
The use of "--dired" is hard-coded in `dired-insert-directory'.
> You need to set 'dired-listing-switches'.
Dired checks if ls supports --dired. In Peter's case, it'll determine
that it's not supported. So adding "-dired" to `dired-listing-switches'
should in fact do the job.
Bye,
Tassilo