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From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
To: coreutils@gnu.org
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: ls/dir/vdir(1)
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:42:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alueABs-ZbwayZdu@devuan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aluIbrKBtAxweITC@devuan>

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Hi,

I have some doubts about specific pages; let's start with ls/dir/vdir.

Experimentally, ls(1) and dir(1) seem to be exactly the same.  I'd like
to document dir(1) with a short page saying that it's equivalent to
ls(1).  Is this correct, or is there any subtle difference?

vdir(1) seems to be `ls -l`.  Is this also correct?  Or is there any
other subtle difference?


Are there any other coreutils commands that are similarly equivalent and
whose page could be similarly simplified?


Have a lovely day!
Alex

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<https://www.alejandro-colomar.es>

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  reply	other threads:[~2026-07-18 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-18 15:13 Hand-written manual pages for GNU coreutils Alejandro Colomar
2026-07-18 15:42 ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]
2026-07-18 18:15   ` ls/dir/vdir(1) Ivan Sokolov
2026-07-18 17:02 ` Hand-written manual pages for GNU coreutils Pádraig Brady
2026-07-18 17:46   ` Alejandro Colomar

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