Lsd: --long + --group displays GID in multiuser environments, not group names

[sklages]

When using the long listing format (--long or -l) with the --group or -g option, the group identifiers displayed are the numeric GIDs, not the group names for most groups. The user names display as expected.
exa has the same problem (not fixed).

Is this something that is on the dev roadmap?

[zwpaper]

man for ls:

-g     like -l, but do not list owner

example output:

[root@localhost /]# ls -l -g
total 28
lrwxrwxrwx.   1 root    7 Aug  3 20:28 bin -> usr/bin
dr-xr-xr-x.   5 root 4096 Aug  3 20:52 boot
drwxr-xr-x.   4 root   70 Aug 31 17:19 data
drwxr-xr-x.  19 root 3920 Sep  8 20:09 dev
drwxr-xr-x.  90 root 8192 Sep 21 10:25 etc
drwxr-xr-x.  11 root 4096 Sep 18 18:37 home

looks like that this is working as expected?

[sklages]

hmm, I am afraid, I don't get it.

When I run lsd -l I see the correct group name for my files/folders.

Other users group names are displayed as group id only (GID), e.g. 1234 instead of prjgrp.

This is true for most, but not all files/groups.

E.g. root. Here the group is correctly displayed as root.

[sklages]

Maybe https://github.com/ogham/rust-users/issues/40

[zwpaper]

can you provide some examples? and the output of ls -l

I have tried lsd -l for 2 users, and it work as expected, the group name is shown:

[vagrant@arch home]$ lsd -l
drwx------ tester  tester  4 KB Wed Sep 23 09:08:04 2020  tester
drwx------ vagrant vagrant 4 KB Sun Sep 20 07:57:02 2020  vagrant

[sklages]

drwx------ user_a   8000     2020-06-22 01:02:07   26 B   user_a
drwxrwxr-x user_b   1993     2016-09-20 13:44:24   10 B   user_b
drwxr-xr-x user_c   8405     2017-07-28 14:47:33   38 B   user_c
drwxr-xr-x user_d   8382     2017-07-21 10:36:31   32 B   user_d
drwxrwx--- user_e   user_e   2020-05-12 15:59:57    4 KB  user_e
drwxrws--- user_a   16023    2019-04-15 16:21:37  100 B   CancerGenomics
lrwxrwxrwx root     root     2020-01-13 09:16:27   21 B   abc ⇒ /project/abc-cluster
lrwxrwxrwx root     root     2018-07-27 11:03:11   22 B   def ⇒ /project/def-cluster
drwxrwx--x user_f   5252     2017-11-28 12:51:36  101 B   david

all these numbers in group column should be displayed as group name, just like ls -l correctly does.
It does not make any difference wether these files are local or via NFS(4) ...

[zwpaper]

Could you provide more info like:

• which Linux Distro, maybe cat /etc/os-release
• lsd-musl or lsd-gnu, how do you installed lsd

maybe related to https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd/issues/374

[zwpaper]

After diving into the PR you provided, I may find the cause, I will look at it this weekend.

[sklages]

No MUSL, standard build with cargo install --git https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd.git --branch master.
Not an issue on my local machine, as there is only me, myself and I (ok, and root) ;-)
My workhorses for working are in-house developed linux systems, 64bit.

[zwpaper]

hi @sklages , I noticed that you are using cargo to install lsd, can you try my patch so that we can confirm if the bug is blocked by https://github.com/ogham/rust-users/pull/38

cargo install --git https://github.com/zwpaper/lsd.git --branch fix-group-name-in-gid

[sklages]

Works like a charm AFAICS ... :+1:

[zwpaper]

We will fix this as soon as https://github.com/ogham/rust-users/pull/38 merged