From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 22 05:40:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0173D16A4CE for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 05:40:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from TRANG.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCE6D43D46 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 05:40:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by TRANG.nuxi.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i5M5ds0t020169; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 22:39:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i5M5drxC020168; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 22:39:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 22:39:53 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Paul Robinson Message-ID: <20040622053953.GA19677@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20040621054406.GA927@VARK.homeunix.com> <200406210910.aa18808@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <20040621091649.GA92422@iconoplex.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040621091649.GA92422@iconoplex.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /bin/ls sorting bug? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 05:40:01 -0000 On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 10:16:49AM +0100, Paul Robinson wrote: > Hate to be the party-pooper, but this thread is starting to smell a bit odd. > The smell reminds me of something... when I was a kid at school... during > the break.... ahh, that's it. This thing smells like a bikeshed. :-) Uh, Paul, Let me introduce you to that key on your keyboard between the 'S' and 'F' keys. Its the 'D' key. Amoung its other good uses (like being used twice in "David") is that most MUA's use it to delete emails and threads you don't care to participate in. > For what it's worth the original patch looked good to me. The nanosecond > patch is fine too. Please, no more intimate discussion of a command line > flag that few people use, and if it doesn't work correctly now could have > been worked around with a pipe to sort. I use -t *all* the time with I do a long listing (ie, -l). I know I'm not alone in knowing the "-t" option to 'ls' exists. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)