Re: ls: sort on -s

[James Youngman]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:21 AM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm at the emacs' dired prompt,
>    ls switches (must contain -l): -ogsS
>  when I realized that -S is not good enough.
>  What I want is an additional way to sort: on the -s sizes!
>  > Just do ls -sog|sort -nr
>  I hear you saying.
>  But I can't. This is dired I'm in.

Surely this is an Emacs issue.   If we provide some kind of special
case in coreutils, the problem will still exist on platforms that
Emacs supports (many!) where the user is not running coreutils.

James.