The "man ls" doesn't show the new features (perhaps the program was updated
before the man!) Is there anyplace to look on a distribution to see all
the commands that have been changed, and what the differences are?
I'll try "info" to see if it has any more information; thanks for the
suggestion.
-- Stan Isaacs
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Stan Isaacs wrote:
>
> > I teach a class in (very) beginning UNIX, using Redhat Linux, version 6.?.
> > In one exercise, the book (I use Sobells' "Practical Guide to Linux") asks
> > students to list files in a directory by size. I try to get them to use
> > ls -l, and pipe it through sort, since size in blocks is not very useful
> > for beginning users. First there seems to be a new "-S" flag which does
> > sort in bytes (where did that come from? Though I think it is very useful.)
> >
> > But recently, a student showed me
> >
> > ls -sort -S
> >
> > and I was very surprised to see that it seemed to work! It gave a long
> > listing in sorted order on bytes. I've never heard of a "-sort" parameter
> > to ls, nor does it seem to follow any standards. I would understand better
> > if it said "ls --sort C" (or something, which specified characters.)
> > Is this a new syntax? Is it general, or special to "ls"? Are we going to
> > be able to combine commands at random in the future? What about "ls -wc",
> > a usage many students seem to try on quizes!
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -- Stan Isaacs
> >
> man ls or info ls
>
> The GNU version of ls has hadded features...
>
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