From: Ivan Kanis <expire-by-2007-12-07@kanis.fr>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: align file name with find-dired
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:51:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eje6215r.fsf@kanis.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87fxyoct9v.fsf@gmail.com
Billy O'Connor <billyoc@gmail.com> writes:
> Ivan Kanis <expire-by-2007-12-06@kanis.fr> writes:
>
>> I am finally trying out find-dired. It looks neat except that filename
>> are not aligned:
>>
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 ivan ivan 0 2007-10-30 21:36 auto-save-list/saves-1471-zen~
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 ivan ivan 134 2007-11-30 03:07 auto-save-list/saves-5829-zen~
>
> I see what's happening, the find command is getting the output of one
> "ls" command at a time via the "-exec" action. the regular dired
> doesn't have this problem, for it doesn't use that "one at a time"
> method of listing the files
I could not find an option in ls to format the size of the file so
that it would line up.
Maybe a better way would be to use find to list directories and then
execute ls on each directories.
--
Ivan
http://kanis.fr
"If the designers of X-Windows built cars, there would be no fewer
than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which
followed the same principles -- but you'd be able to shift gears with
your car stereo. Useful feature, that."
-- Marus J. Ranum , Digital Equipment Corporation
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2007-11-30 2:16 align file name with find-dired Ivan Kanis
2007-11-30 3:21 ` Billy O'Connor
2007-12-01 9:51 ` Ivan Kanis [this message]
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