[ILUG] displaying directory listings

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Darragh said:
> is there an arguement that I
> can
> use with ls or another command to show a directory list in one columb?
> i.e.
> I don't want more than one file or directory per line.

ls -1

>
> Finally I'd like to know how to space listings so if a file name was less
> than 40 characters another file or directry name was shown in the next 40
> chunk.

Dunno.

>
> I'd also like to give directorys a different starting character instead of
> having the color change as although brltty can distinguish this its kind
> of
> confusing me.

ls --color=never -F

This actually puts the character at the end of the name of the directory,
and also puts different characters at the end of other file types:
'/':  directories
'*':  executable files
'@':  soft links
etc.


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