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Re: Suggestions for fileutils

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From: David J. MacKenzie
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 13:14
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> This will be true in GNU as well, so it is fairly important to fix the
> documentation. 

>    The -f option is still useful for listing files in directory order
>    (unsorted) and since it only works on true directories there is no
>    longer any reason to turn off the -l, -s or -r flags (or any of the
>    others that -f needed to turn off before that didn't make it into
>    the man page).

> Further, this is an annoying misfeature.  I suggest that -f be
> redesignated "print in directory order", in other words, "don't sort",
> and that it should only interact with the flags that force sorting.

GNU ls doesn't have -f, because it doesn't seem useful to me, but it
has a -U (for "unsorted") option to suppress sorting.
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From: djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie)
Subject: Re: Suggestions for fileutils
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Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 13:14:40 GMT
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