fix bad assumption about total lines

[small-misc-bash] / ll-function

diff --git a/ll-function b/ll-function
index cdc2c811409513398c12abb83a5e43f75804b723..4c8b3e8e7a554d554decdee8806c51f45d59bdb8 100644 (file)
--- a/ll-function
+++ b/ll-function
@@ -23,11 +23,10 @@
 # remove first line size summary
 ll() {
     local x y perm line binls sizePadding middle tail size \
-           max_hl_digits hardlinks initial_space hardlink_spacing
+          max_hl_digits hardlinks initial_space hardlink_spacing
     local max_hl_digits=0
     local -a lines hl
     binls=$(type -P ls)
-    local first=true
     local aclchar=false
     # there's no way to tell if ls uses the acl specifier unless we loop over the data twice
     # the 11th char is either
@@ -37,11 +36,9 @@ ll() {
     #  I don't want to see this generally.
     while read line; do
         # if we did want the first line, it would need to be stripped of non-printing chars:
-       # line=${line#$'\E[00m'}
-        # when no argument is given to ls, the first line is like "total 123M". strip that
-       if $first && [[ ! $@ ]]; then
-           first=false
-        else
+       #line=${line#$'\E[00m'}
+        # lines like "total 123M", we don't want
+       if [[ ! $line =~ ^total\ [0-9][^\ ]*$ ]]; then
             lines+=("$line")
             [[ ! ${line:10:1} == " " ]] && aclchar=true