sl(6)

sl6

Display animations aimed to correct users who accidentally enter sl instead of ls.

Usage

sl [-alFe]

Overview

sl Displays animations aimed to correct users who accidentally enter sl instead of ls. SL stands for Steam Locomotive.

Options

-a

An accident seems to happen. You'll feel pity for people who cry for help.

-l

shows little one.

-F

It flies.

-e

Allow interrupt by Ctrl+C.

Releases

13 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 2.2
  2. 3.0
  3. 3.1–4.0
  4. 5.0–13

-F since Debian 3.0 (Woody); -a since Debian 3.0 (Woody); -e since Debian 3.0 (Woody); -l since Debian 3.0 (Woody).

Bugs

It rarely shows contents of current directory.

Author

sl was written by Toyoda Masashi <[email protected]>. This manual page was written by Brian Ristuccia <[email protected]> and Kenshi Muto <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux system but may be used by others under the same license as sl itself.

From sl 5.02-1+b1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.