ls follies
Steven List
itkin at luke.UUCP
Sun Aug 18 12:05:13 AEST 1985
In article <1803 at reed.UUCP> alexis at reed.UUCP (Alexis Dimitriadis) writes:
>> 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....
>>
> What gets me is there is no way to convince ls to produce _unsorted_
>output! (never mind why... ok, I needed output in the order of the arguments).
Wouldn't
find . -type f -print | xargs ls -l...
do this for you? Granted, in this simple case it does a recursive listing
a la ls -R, but at least it's unsorted!
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