[HADOOP-2865] FsShell.ls() should print file attributes first then the path name.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.15.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.18.0
• Hadoop Flags: Incompatible change, Reviewed

Release Note

Changed the output of the "fs -ls" command to more closely match familiar Linux format. Additional changes were made by HADOOP-3459. Applications that parse the command output should be reviewed.

• Assignee: Edward J. Yoon
• Reporter: Konstantin Shvachko
• Created: 21/Feb/08 02:09
• Updated: 22/Aug/08 19:50
• Resolved: 16/Apr/08 22:31

Description

When we had a handful of attributes this looked OK. But after the permissions the ls output is just unreadable.
This how the output looks now:

/CHANGES.txt    <r 2>   174779  2008-01-29 10:00        rw-r--r--       shv     supergroup
/LICENSE.txt    <r 2>   11358   2008-01-28 17:27        rw-r--r--       shv     supergroup
/NOTICE.txt     <r 2>   101     2008-01-29 12:06        rw-r--r--       shv     supergroup
/Work   <dir>           2008-01-23 17:43        rwxr-xr-x       shv     supergroup
/Work/hadoop-data       <dir>           2008-01-23 17:43        rwxr-xr-x       shv     supergroup

This is how it should look:

2   174779  2008-01-29 10:00       -rw-r--r--       shv     supergroup     /CHANGES.txt
2   11358   2008-01-28 17:27       -rw-r--r--       shv     supergroup     /LICENSE.txt
2   101     2008-01-29 12:06       -rw-r--r--       shv     supergroup     /NOTICE.txt
            2008-01-23 17:43       drwxr-xr-x       shv     supergroup     /Work
            2008-01-23 17:43       drwxr-xr-x       shv     supergroup     /Work/hadoop-data