Suggestions for fileutils

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From: Michael I Bushnell
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 06:21

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   Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 17:14:40 -0400
   From: "David J. MacKenzie" <djm@eng.umd.edu>
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   > 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.

Oh.  Never mind then; it's already perfect.

	-mib

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Subject: Suggestions for fileutils
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