ls -C considered harmful (really ls follies)

Ed Nather nather at utastro.UUCP
Thu Aug 15 06:52:41 AEST 1985


> Do you realize that for all the billions and billions of options hacked
> into ls, I've never seen a version of ls that can sort files based on size?
> shoe size of the programmer maybe, but never file size.... 
> 
> chuq (no, DON'T do it! please! We don't NEED another option....)
> Chuq Von Rospach         nsc!chuqui at decwrl.ARPA

Too late, chuq ...  but at least we kept it a local hack, we didn't post it
to net.everywhere.

-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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nather%utastro.UTEXAS at ut-sally.ARPA



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