Re: `ls -1s` doesn't print "total"

To: tech-userlevel%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: `ls -1s` doesn't print "total"
From: mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2024 05:16:17 -0000 (UTC)

mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost (Mouse) writes:

>For what it's worth, it appears this behaviour is very longstanding.  I
>find that 1.4T and 5.2 behave identically in this respect and are
>consistent with the "programmatic consumption versus human consumption"
>interpretation.

The change seems to be much older. When multi-column output was
introduced, it would print the total line when -s or -l were
given.

With 4.3BSD-Reno there was a new ls implementation with separate
output routines for single, columnar and long output that only
printed the total line for the last two modes.

References:
- `ls -1s` doesn't print "total"
  - From: Jan Schaumann
- Re: `ls -1s` doesn't print "total"
  - From: Valery Ushakov
- Re: `ls -1s` doesn't print "total"
  - From: Mouse

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