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Re:JVM Options Explorer by mzi on Sunday April 12, 2026 @07:31AM (#47738467)
One of my nerd-quizzes I hade at interviews before was "what letters in what case are NOT flags to GNU ls".
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Re:JVM Options Explorer by eru on Sunday April 12, 2026 @08:11AM (#47738756)
The answer is 'man ls'. And: 'almost all letters of unicode'.
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Re:JVM Options Explorer by ecshafer on Sunday April 12, 2026 @11:58PM (#47747420)
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But I would probably just say without looking it up "man ls", and I basically just use -lta, sometiemes r.

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