[Bug 227111] ls: -c option does nothing

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Conrad Meyer <cem at freebsd.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Conrad Meyer <cem at freebsd.org> ---
It doesn't do nothing -- it changes the printed time field and sorted-by time
field to be the "changed" date.  Even with plain 'ls -l' vs 'ls -cl' I can
observe this on my directories.  E.g.,


$ ls -l nacl-20110221.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--  1 conrad  conrad  163415 Feb 20  2011 nacl-20110221.tar.bz2
$ ls -lc nacl-20110221.tar.bz2       ^^^^^^^^^^^^
-rw-r--r--  1 conrad  conrad  163415 Mar 10 11:02 nacl-20110221.tar.bz2
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^
$ stat -x nacl-20110221.tar.bz2
  File: "nacl-20110221.tar.bz2"
  Size: 163415       FileType: Regular File
  Mode: (0644/-rw-r--r--)         Uid: ( 1001/  conrad)  Gid: ( 1001/  conrad)
Device: 0,70   Inode: 35232639    Links: 1
Access: Sat Mar 10 11:02:59 2018
Modify: Sun Feb 20 17:49:40 2011
Change: Sat Mar 10 11:02:59 2018


For sorting, it's a modifier flag for 't', which actually induces time-based
sorting.  Try 'ls -lt' vs 'ls -clt'.

The documentation could be more clear.

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