/bin/ls sorting bug?

[Oliver Fromme]

Valentin Nechayev <netch at ivb.nn.kiev.ua> wrote:
 >  Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 02:34:04, andrit wrote about "Re: /bin/ls sorting bug?": 
 > > 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.

That's why I've always wanted an ls flag to output the time
stamp in time_t form (i.e. seconds since the epoch).  Would
make a lot of scripts a lot easier.

(Yes, I know we've got "/usr/bin/stat -r", but that's not
portable.)

Regards
   Oliver

PS:  Don't get me wrong; I'm _not_ asking for such a flag
to ls, as it wouldn't help for portable scripts.

PPS:  FWIW, I like the patch (the second one which takes
nanoseconds correctly into account).  I would also suggest
an option to display the nanoseconds in ls -l output.
Maybe when -T is specified twice ...?  (That way we
wouldn't waste yet another letter.)

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