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Article #111Re: Suggestions for fileutils
From: David J. MacKenzie
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 13:14
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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Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!eng.umd.edu!djm From: djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) Subject: Re: Suggestions for fileutils Message-ID: <199204072114.AA15719@vortex.eng.umd.edu> Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet References: <3449@moscom.UUCP> Distribution: gnu Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 13:14:40 GMT Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu Lines: 16