X-Git-Url: http://git.treefish.org/fex.git/blobdiff_plain/e5c93609849bda051fff54b5d5265af5608c6c69..20160104:/bin/l

diff --git a/bin/l b/bin/l
index 1389931..c7d7667 100755
--- a/bin/l
+++ b/bin/l
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 #!/usr/bin/perl -w
 #
-# l / ll / lf / llf -  substitute of the classic ls command
+# l / ll / lf / llf -  better replacement of the classic ls command
 #
 # Author: Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
 #
-# Copyright: GNU General Public License 
+# Copyright: Perl Artistic License 
 
 use Cwd qw'abs_path';
 use File::Basename;
@@ -22,31 +22,24 @@ $ENV{LC_CTYPE} = 'C';
 # parse CLI arguments
 $opt_l = $opt_i = $opt_t = $opt_s = $opt_a = $opt_r = $opt_d = $opt_n = 0;
 $opt_L = $opt_N = $opt_c = $opt_u = $opt_S = $opt_R = $opt_z = $opt_h = 0;
-$opt_U = $opt_x = 0;
-${'opt_*'} = ${'opt_?'} = 0;
+$opt_U = $opt_x = $opt_E = 0;
+${'opt_*'} = 0;
 $opt_m = $opt_f = $opt_F = $opt_D = '';
-&usage if !getopts('hdnlLNitcuarsxUSRz*?m:f:D:F:') || $opt_h;
+getopts('hdnlLNitcuarsxUSREz*m:f:D:F:') or usage(1);
+usage(0) if $opt_h;
 $opt_z = 1 unless $opt_R;
 $opt_l = 1                            if $0 eq 'll';
 $opt_l = $opt_i = $opt_a = $opt_S = 1 if $0 eq 'lll';
+&examples if $opt_E;
 if ($0 eq 'lf' or $0 eq 'llf') {
-  unless ($opt_F) {
-    $opt_F = shift;
-    unless (length $opt_F) {
-      print "find regexp: ";
-      chomp($opt_F = <STDIN>||'');
-    }
-  }
-  $opt_l = $0 if $0 eq 'llf';
-  $opt_F = '.' unless length $opt_F;
-  $opt_R = $opt_F;
+  $opt_F ||= shift or usage(1);
+  $opt_R ||= scalar(@ARGV) || ($opt_F eq '.');
+  $opt_l ||= $0 eq 'llf';
 }
 
 $postsort = $opt_t||$opt_s;
 $postproc = $postsort||$opt_z;
 
-&examples if ${'opt_?'};
-
 # mark for squeeze operation
 $z = $opt_z ? "\0" : '';
 
@@ -551,14 +544,17 @@ sub fmatch {
 
 
 sub usage {
+  my $status = shift;
   my $opts = '[-lastcuidnrzLRxNS*] [-f format] [-D X:Y]';
+  local *OUT = $status ? *STDERR : *STDOUT;
+  
   if ($0 ne 'lf') { 
-    print "usage: $0 $opts [-F regexp] [file...]\n";
+    print OUT "usage: $0 $opts [-F regexp] [file...]\n";
   }
   $opts =~ s/R//;
-  print "usage: lf $opts regexp [directory...]\n";
-  print <<EOD;
-options: -l  long list
+  print OUT "usage: lf $opts regexp [directory...]\n";
+  print OUT <<EOD;
+options: -l  long list (implicit if called 'll')
          -a  list also .* files
          -s  sort by size
          -t  sort by time
@@ -576,16 +572,16 @@ options: -l  long list
          -F  find files matching case insensitive regexp
          -N  show only normal (regular) files
          -S  print statistics summary at end
-         -*  list plain file names (without masking \\)
+         -*  list plain file names (without \\ masking)
 	 -f  user defined format output, format characters are:
 	     m=mode, u=user, g=group, s=size, l=hard links count, i=inode
 	     n=name only, d=date, a=access+modification+inodechange dates
          -D  list only files newer than X and older than Y 
              XY format: NUMBER[smhd] (s=seconds, m=minutes, h=hours, d=days)
              XY format: YYYY-MM-DD (Y=year, M=month, D=day)
-         -?  show examples
+         -E  show examples
 EOD
-  exit 2;
+  exit $status;
 }
 
 sub examples {
@@ -597,8 +593,8 @@ l -*f mus        # list files native names with format: mode+user+size
 l -D 10d:        # list files newer than 10 days
 ll               # list files long format (equal to: l -l)
 lll              # list files extra long format (equal to: l -liS)
-lf 'status.*mp3' # list files recursive matching regexp (equal to: l -RF)
-lf sda3 /dev     # list devices matching sda3 (equal to: l -RF sd3 /dev)                                                       
+lf 'status.*mp3' # list files matching regexp (equal to: l -F 'status.*mp3')
+lf sda1 /dev     # list devices matching sda1 (equal to: l -RF sda1 /dev)
 EOD
   exit;
 }