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Re: ls --sort=none -r


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: ls --sort=none -r
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 07:08:23 -0600
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According to Dave Yost on 9/12/2006 8:40 PM:
> It's not about reversing a raw directory.  It's about doing ls -l of several 
> items in the order specified.   Below is 'not much call' for it. ;-)
> 
>> You can filter the output with 'tac' if that's what you really want.
> 
> Clearly this is a bug in the POSIX+XSI specification.

You are free to file a bug report with the POSIX folks, but be sure you
have proposed wording for what it should read, and enough justification to
convince them that your report really describes a bug:
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/defectform.html

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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