On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 07:35:20AM -0800, Stan Isaacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| 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.
You're misreading it, I think, and your student was merely lucky.
See if:
ls -s -o -r -t -S
behaves the same way. And if it does, now you know why, too.
--
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to someone living on a park bench. - Gene Spafford
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