Author: R. Koucha
Last update:05-Nov-2010

Patch to fix the -g option of ls command

in

busybox-1.17.2

Introduction
How to apply the patch
About the author

Introduction

The "-g" option of the "ls" shell command makes "ls" display only the group column instead of the owner and the group columns. But the "ls" command of busybox makes the contrary : it displays the owner column.

How to apply the patch

Untar the busybox-1.17.2.tar.bz2 package.
Change directory into it
Copy the patch file busybox-1.17.2-ls_minus_g.diff into this directory
Apply the patch busybox-1.17.2-ls_minus_g.diff as follow:

$ tar xvfj busybox-1.17.2.tar.bz2
$ cd busybox-1.17.2
$ cp ....../busybox-1.17.2-ls_minus_g.diff .
$ patch -p1 < busybox-1.17.2-ls_minus_g.diff

About the author

The author is an engineer in computer sciences located in France. He is glad to graciously offer this utility under the GPL open source license. He can be contacted through this page or you can have a look at his WEB home page.