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Date:      Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:16:52 +0300
From:      Valentin Nechayev <netch@ivb.nn.kiev.ua>
To:        Andriy Tkachuk <andrit@ukr.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /bin/ls sorting bug?
Message-ID:  <20040621061652.GA96079@lucky.net>
In-Reply-To: <004401c45640$f7d73b70$5f0210ac@ranger>
References:  <20040619175007.GB462@tuatara.fishballoon.org> <414787887.20040619210137@andric.com> <20040619193545.GC462@tuatara.fishballoon.org> <14210101.20040619220601@andric.com> <004401c45640$f7d73b70$5f0210ac@ranger>

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 Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 02:34:04, andrit wrote about "Re: /bin/ls sorting bug?": 

>> 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. :)
> But there is nice sort command and power of unix.
> Don't you remember the initial UNIX concept to make miracles by small
> things fired together? :)

Well, let's disable sorting in ls output totally and give this role to sort.
I thinks folks won't adopt this idea, especially said that ls output
isn't easily machine-parseable.


-netch-



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