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Re: ls --sort=none -r


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: ls --sort=none -r
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:49:05 -0700
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Dave Yost <address@hidden> writes:

> The -r should reverse the (unsorted) order.

But POSIX+XSI requires that -r must be turned off
if unsorted order is specified (the -f option).  See
<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/ls.html>.

Surely there's not much call for reversing a raw directory.
You can filter the output with 'tac' if that's what you really want.




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