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From: alexis@reed.UUCP (Alexis Dimitriadis)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: ls follies
Message-ID: <1836@reed.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 25-Aug-85 01:56:15 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 25 01:56:15 1985
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Reply-To: alexis@reed.UUCP (Alexis Dimitriadis)
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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Summary: 

> >>  What gets me is there is no way to convince ls to produce _unsorted_ 
> >>output!  (never mind why...
> 
> How about ls -f.
> 
  ls -f is fine *if the argument is a single directory*.  
Besides, 4.2BSD ls -f alphabetizes its "directory" arguments, before 
listing each one unsorted.  Try "ls -f b a" to see what I mean...

Alexis Dimitriadis
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