- lines+=("$line")
- [[ ! ${line:10:11} == " " ]] && aclchar=true
- done< <( "$binls" -lAh --color=always "--time-style=+%m-%d-%y
-%m-%d %I:%M %p" "$@" )
-
- for line in "${lines[@]}"; do
- # very first line starts with some non printing chars
- if $first; then
- line=${line#$'\E[00m'}
- first=false
- fi
+ # if we did want the first line, it would need to be stripped of non-printing chars:
+ #line=${line#$'\E[00m'}
+ # lines like "total 123M", we don't want
+ if [[ ! $line =~ ^total\ [0-9][^\ ]*$ ]]; then
+ lines+=("$line")
+ if ! [[ $line == [-dscbl][-r][-w][-xsS][-r][-w][-xsS][-r][-w][-xtT]* ]]; then
+ hardlinks=
+ else
+ [[ ! ${line:10:1} == " " ]] && aclchar=true
+
+ # we also need to parse the hardlinks on the first pass, because for
+ # example ls could see the highest count as 11, and thus use 3
+ # places for hardlinks, " 10", but then we use 9 or 8 for a more
+ # useful count, and would then use 2 places. So we have to look
+ # through them all because we can't rely on the spacing that ls
+ # decided on.
+ y="${line:11}"
+ initial_space="${y%%[![:space:]]*}"
+ hardlinks="${y#$initial_space}" # remove any initial spaces
+ hardlinks="${hardlinks%%[[:space:]]*}" # remove everything beyond first word
+ # ignore the hardlinks that files/dirs always have
+ hardlinks=$(( hardlinks - 1 ))
+ [[ $hardlinks == 0 ]] && hardlinks=
+ if (( ${#hardlinks} > max_hl_digits )); then
+ max_hl_digits=${#hardlinks}
+ fi
+ fi
+ hl+=("$hardlinks")
+ fi
+ done< <( "$binls" -lAh --color=always "--time-style=+%m-%d %Y
+%m-%d %I:%M %P" "$@" )
+
+ hardlink_spacing=$((max_hl_digits + 1))
+
+ for index in "${!lines[@]}"; do
+ line=${lines[index]}
+ hardlinks=${hl[index]}