Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 04:22:26 -0700 From: Graeme Tait <graeme@echidna.com> To: flygt@sr.se Cc: Bill Hamilton <billh@finsco.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: alternate file listing Message-ID: <362C7272.4F41@echidna.com> References: <362B3923.2534A16A@graphnet.com> <362C58C1.B4D1367@pc.jaring.my> <362BB8A2.B27F615E@finsco.com> <19981020090701.A9920@sr.se>
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Gunnar Flygt wrote: > > 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. Yes - the action of sort in this case seems to depend on the column alignment, which for ls -l depends in turn on the width of the user and group names. Within a single directory, with say constant group and user names, the sort is in numeric order. It's worse with ls -lR, as the column alignment can additionally change from directory to directory, depending on the maximum file size in each directory. I found the sort man page rather confusing, but I believe from experiment that ls -lR | sort -nk 5 does work (FreeBSD). The resulting listing can look rather ugly, though. -- Graeme Tait - Echidna To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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