standards/83919: ls man page "sort by size" example out not POSIX compliant

Justin T. Gibbs gibbs at scsiguy.com
Tue Jul 26 14:40:27 GMT 2005


The following reply was made to PR standards/83919; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs at scsiguy.com>
To: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at crodrigues.org>, bug-followup at freebsd.org
Cc: dd at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: standards/83919: ls man page "sort by size" example out not POSIX compliant
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 08:32:56 -0600

 > Hi,
 > 
 > ls -l | sort -n +4 was removed in revision 1.89
 > of the ls.1 man page in favor of the "-S" flag:
 > 
 > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/bin/ls/ls.1.diff?r1=1.88&r2=1.89&f=h
 
 I guess it was never MFC'd to 5.X, so I didn't notice.
 
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 Justin
 


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