Re: Grammar for ls -l output

Nice grammar Steven, though I need to set the english locale for it. My
swedish locale spells total as totalt
and has lowercase first characters in the month names, ie Dec is spelt dec.
:-)

LANG=en.UTF8 ls -l | xmq ls.ixml






Den tors 8 jan. 2026 kl 21:28 skrev Steven Pemberton <
steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>:

>
> Sure!
>
>
> {ls -l}
> directory: total, entry*.
>
> @total: -"total", s, n, -#a.
> -s: -" "+.
>
> entry: props, links, user, group, size, date, name, -#a.
>
> props: ["dlrwx-s"]+, s.
>
> links: n, s.
>
> user: id.
> group: id.
> -id: ~[" "]+, s.
>
> size: n, s.
>
> date: month, day, (year; time), s.
> month: L, l, l, s.
> -L: ["A"-"Z"].
> -l: ["a"-"z"].
>
> day: n, s.
> year: n.
> time: h, -":", m.
> h: n.
> m: n.
>
> -n: ["0"-"9"]+.
> @name: ~[#a]+.
>
>
> On Thursday 08 January 2026 16:54:40 (+01:00), Peter Flynn wrote:
>
>  > Before I spend any non-trivial amount of time on this, has anyone done
> an ixml grammar for the output of the "ls -l" command (with or without
> optional bells and whistles)?
>  >
>  > Peter
>  >
>  >
>
>