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Subject: Re: set -A and stat -A vs. typeset -A and stat -H
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From: Bruce Stephens <b.stephens@isode.com>
Date: 28 Jan 1999 17:43:15 +0000
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"Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com> writes:

> On Jan 28,  1:23pm, Phil Pennock wrote:

> }         "What are four lowercase letters that are not legal flag arguments
> } to the Berkeley UNIX version of `ls'?"
> } 
> } HAND (and no, the first two letters of that are just coincidence).
> 
> Um, HAND are not lowercase letters ... and BSD `ls' does use -A. ;->
> (My answer would be e j v y, but I had to think about it for too
> long.)

The ls I've got doesn't use h, but it certainly uses a, n and d.  Are
there really versions of ls which don't support a or d?  I use those
options all the time.

Anyway, that shows there's room for expansion, should zls need more
options.