ls follies

[Daniel R. Levy]

In article <695 at cybvax0.UUCP>, fbp at cybvax0.UUCP (Rick Peralta) writes:
>In article <321 at luke.UUCP> you write:
>>>  What gets me is there is no way to convince ls to produce _unsorted_
>>>output!  (never mind why...
>>
>
>How about ls -f.
>
>By the way why does -f have to turn off -l and about everything else ?
>Please followup in net.unix.
>
>
>Rick  ...!cybvax0[!dmc0]!fbp

ls -f will also "list" a directory which is not really a directory at all,
try cat some_dir/ > fake_dir  (where some_dir/ is a directory and fake_dir
is of course an ordinary file) followed by ls -f fake_dir.  You will see the
same result as an unsorted ls -a of some_dir/ .  Because the arg to such a
ls -f might not be a directory at all it would not make sense to stat the
"files" in it.  (Try ls -f /etc/passwd or for more fun, ls -if).
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