Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 15:13:34 -0700 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> Cc: Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org> Subject: Re: /bin/ls sorting bug? Message-ID: <20040619221334.GA1062@VARK.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <14210101.20040619220601@andric.com> References: <20040619175007.GB462@tuatara.fishballoon.org> <414787887.20040619210137@andric.com> <20040619193545.GC462@tuatara.fishballoon.org> <14210101.20040619220601@andric.com>
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On Sat, Jun 19, 2004, Dimitry Andric wrote: > So, if these fields for two different files are exactly the same, the > resulting sorted list will have an undefined order for all other > fields. And AFAICS, there's no way to tell ls: "first sort on time, > then on filename, then on size", etc. This would make a nice addition > though. :) Umm...sorting on time, then filename, then size is equivalent to sorting on time, then filename. That is, you can't have a tie on the filename field. ;-)
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