Re: [dev] [sbase] [PATCH] ls: add option to reverse the sort order

From: Nick <suckless-dev_AT_njw.me.uk>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 14:47:25 +0100

On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 02:40:57PM +0100, Raphaël Proust wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Alexander S. <alex0player_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> > Uh, cannot this be achieved by piping output to tac?
>
> At which points someone asks why is there a sorted order at all in ls
> output… cannot this be achieved by piping output to sort?

It's date sorted, so it could be done by a pipeline, but not
anywhere near as usably as ls -t[r].

This is the sort of functionality that to me is definitely worth the
extra lines of code.
Received on Fri Oct 04 2013 - 15:47:25 CEST