/bin/ls sorting bug?

Valentin Nechayev netch at ivb.nn.kiev.ua
Mon Jun 21 06:17:06 GMT 2004


 Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 02:34:04, andrit wrote about "Re: /bin/ls sorting bug?": 

>> 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. :)
> But there is nice sort command and power of unix.
> Don't you remember the initial UNIX concept to make miracles by small
> things fired together? :)

Well, let's disable sorting in ls output totally and give this role to sort.
I thinks folks won't adopt this idea, especially said that ls output
isn't easily machine-parseable.


-netch-


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