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From: Robert Eckardt <roberte@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de>
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Subject: bin/4558: ls -d does not sort directories as plain files
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>Number:         4558
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       ls -d does not sort directories as plain files
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep 16 16:20:00 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Robert Eckardt
>Organization:
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE i386
>Environment:

	System from WC's 2.2.2 CD

>Description:

	As documented in the man page ls's option `-d' should list
	directories as plain files. Therefore, one would expect that
	files and directories are sorted on an equal footing (as it
	is on SunOS5.4, AIX, Linux).
	However, the (sorted) directories are appended after the
	sorted files.
	I don't know whether this behaviour is considered `classic',
	but it is inconsistent and surprising.

>How-To-Repeat:

# cd to_an_empty_test_directory
# touch a c
# mkdir b
# ls -l
total 1
-rw-rw-r--  1 roberte  work    0 17 Sep 00:58 a
drwxrwxr-x  2 roberte  work  512 17 Sep 00:58 b
-rw-rw-r--  1 roberte  work    0 17 Sep 00:58 c
# ls -ld *
-rw-rw-r--  1 roberte  work    0 17 Sep 00:58 a
-rw-rw-r--  1 roberte  work    0 17 Sep 00:58 c
drwxrwxr-x  2 roberte  work  512 17 Sep 00:58 b

>Fix:
	
	

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: