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Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 13:40:30 -0700
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Sorting and Matching options for ls(1)
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Alfred Perlstein writes:
> * Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> [020306 12:05] wrote:
> > At the request of several FreeBSD users, I have developed the following
> > two options for ls(1):
> > 
> >      -M      Display files that match the specified types only.  The file
> >              types are specified by a single character as in strmode(3), 
> >              with
> >              the option to specify regular files as ``r'' instead of ``-'' 
> >              if
> >              needed.
> > 
> >      -S      Explicity specify the sorting order.  The sorting flags are:
> 
> EXAMPLES
>      The following is how to do an ls listing sorted by size (and shows why ls
>      does not need a separate option for this):
> 
>            ls -l | sort -n +4

Or, alternatively.

    ls -ls | sort

And in reverse order

    ls -ls | sort -r



Nate

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