Thanks to all who answered this: I was myopic and misdirected by my own
short-sightedness. And I had just been teaching that you could "stack"
flags with a single dash! Oh, well.
Thanks to:
Cameron Simpson
John Darrah
Bruce A. Mallett
for pointing me correctly.
-- Stan Isaacs
> 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.
> --
> Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
>
> Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored
> car to deliver credit-card information from someone living in a cardboard box
> to someone living on a park bench. - Gene Spafford
>
>
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