Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site poseidon.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!drutx!mtuxo!pegasus!phoenix!poseidon!brent From: brent@poseidon.UUCP (Brent P. Callaghan) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: ls -C considered harmful (really ls follies) Message-ID: <1260@poseidon.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 10:06:26 EDT Article-I.D.: poseidon.1260 Posted: Thu Aug 15 10:06:26 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 01:33:30 EDT References: <3123@nsc.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft NJ Lines: 15 >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.... This reminded me of the file listing command of the Burroughs large systems MCP. It sorted filenames first on length of name (short names first), then alphabetically. It was surprisingly easy to locate a file given a rough idea of its length, and it produced a pretty pattern on the screen! -- Made in New Zealand --> Brent Callaghan AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft, NJ {ihnp4|mtuxo|pegasus}!poseidon!brent (201) 576-3475