From d8469509db29c7e1f3b2350c6e0744e552d3f86a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Kelling <ian@iankelling.org>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 14:59:34 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] add a comment

---
 ll-function | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ll-function b/ll-function
index 7a1c623..f0839cc 100644
--- a/ll-function
+++ b/ll-function
@@ -43,6 +43,12 @@ ll() {
             lines+=("$line")
             [[ ! ${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
-- 
2.30.2