nice catch. alas, this would break a bunch of other parts of the code that already rely on the (non-Unix compliant) -a option.

I think the right move would be to add support to both -a and -A, and change all calls of the type _ls('-a', ...) to the -A option within shell.js.

any takers? :)

alas, this would break a bunch of other parts of the code

I fixed up the other parts; all (modified) tests pass.

I think the right move would be to add support to both -a and -A

sure I can do that, but honestly -a is prety useless - it's -A with two extra entries tacked on.

my bad, didn't read the whole change set.

OK, what I'll do is I'll add a deprecated message for the -a option for users that already depend on it. thanks.