Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 15:03:44 +0000 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sorting and Matching options for ls(1) Message-ID: <3C862FD0.3040100@softweyr.com> References: <3C862030.9080108@softweyr.com> <20020306201842.GS77980@elvis.mu.org> <15494.32446.840336.843194@caddis.yogotech.com>
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Nate Williams wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein writes:
>
>>* Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> [020306 12:05] wrote:
>>
>>>At the request of several FreeBSD users, I have developed the following
>>>two options for ls(1):
>>>
>>> -M Display files that match the specified types only. The file
>>> types are specified by a single character as in strmode(3),
>>> with
>>> the option to specify regular files as ``r'' instead of ``-''
>>> if
>>> needed.
>>>
>>> -S Explicity specify the sorting order. The sorting flags are:
>>>
>>EXAMPLES
>> The following is how to do an ls listing sorted by size (and shows why ls
>> does not need a separate option for this):
>>
>> ls -l | sort -n +4
>>
>
> Or, alternatively.
>
> ls -ls | sort
>
> And in reverse order
>
> ls -ls | sort -r
Now make it do one (or either) and only display the filenames:
bash-2.05$ ./ls -Ss /bin
tcsh unlink cp test sleep
csh rm chmod mkdir echo
sh mv cat kill rmail
ls red df link sync
pax ed chio ln
rcp expr realpath hostname
ps dd pwd domainname
date stty [ rmdir
I made all the same arguments to the users who adamantly requested both,
and was told resoundingly that resorting to a pipe with combinations of
grep, sort, and awk was not acceptable. You could at least assume I know
how to read a man page, and use sort and grep.
Anyone else who want to raise the trivial argument "ls already has too
many options" can simply reply directly to me with a subject of "ls:
trivial argument". Spare the list traffic.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/
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