Re: Group results according the indicators appended by -F/--classify (ls --sort=class)

[aristidesfl]

I sent 3 emails because it was my 1st time on the list and I thought they were not coming through, I'm sorry.

I miss this feature a lot. Tried to work around the limitation by creating an alias witch would call `ls` multiple times, but it has the drawback of not being able to accept any more options.

Since there is an option to classify the results, it makes sense one to order them by that classification.

On Friday, May 4, 2012 at 16:27 , Jim Meyering wrote:

Pádraig Brady wrote:

On 04/27/2012 03:51 AM, aristidesfl wrote:

From the man entry:

```

-F, --classify

append indicator (one of */=>@|) to entries

```

Would be useful for readability purposes to be able group entries according the indicators appended by -F/--classify.

A WORD called class could be added to "--sort" for this purpose.

In addition to that, it would be useful to have an option which forced the extra entries printed by -a/-A, to be displayed after the rest of the normal entries, independently of sorting options.

For my own reference there are 2 other duplicate threads to ignore on this.

Hmm, this is one of those marginal items.

I'm not convinced by the readability improvements,

especially when colors are used.

I'd be marginally against adding this.

Thanks for replying.

I have the same feeling: hard to justify the addition.