/bin/ls sorting bug?
David Schultz
das at FreeBSD.ORG
Sat Jun 19 22:13:50 GMT 2004
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> So, if these fields for two different files are exactly the same, the
> resulting sorted list will have an undefined order for all other
> fields. And AFAICS, there's no way to tell ls: "first sort on time,
> then on filename, then on size", etc. This would make a nice addition
> though. :)
Umm...sorting on time, then filename, then size is equivalent to
sorting on time, then filename. That is, you can't have a tie on
the filename field. ;-)
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