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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