Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 09:07:01 +0200 From: Gunnar Flygt <gunnar@pluto.sr.se> To: Bill Hamilton <billh@finsco.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: alternate file listing Message-ID: <19981020090701.A9920@sr.se> In-Reply-To: <362BB8A2.B27F615E@finsco.com>; from Bill Hamilton on Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 05:09:38PM -0500 References: <362B3923.2534A16A@graphnet.com> <362C58C1.B4D1367@pc.jaring.my> <362BB8A2.B27F615E@finsco.com>
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On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 05:09:38PM -0500, Bill Hamilton wrote:
> like what directories?
> ls -lR | sort -k 5
> will sort on on size from "." down. (at least on Solaris)
That won't work well on neither FreeBSD nor Solaris. You get a sort, not
in filesize order, but on the first, second and son on digigt. At least
on the two different machines I checked.
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