* 	b) missing an option (eg -S) to sort by size

Try

ls -s | sort -n

Satoshi "now you know why it's also missing an option to sort by inode #" Asami

As Zahemszky Gabor wrote:

> 	a) the ls command's -q option has not got an opposite - so I cannot
> 	force ls to output the correct character to the terminal (I got a ?
> 	instead)

ls -C | cat

> 	b) missing an option (eg -S) to sort by size

ls -s | sort -n | rs

(Likewise for sorting by inode or by owner.)

> 	c) missing an option (eg -b as in AT&T Unices) to force printing
> 	non-printable characters as octal \xyz format. - and as I see, ls

I've already thought about adding this one (and will keep the PR open
for just this).

> 	doesn't know LANG, and LC_CTYPE (so I haven't got accented
> 	characters in the filenames)

Almost no utility in 2.1R did care for LC_CTYPE unless you have been
setting the environmental variable ENABLE_STARTUP_LOCALE.  This has
been fixed in the current development sources.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

Comment 3 Wolfram Schneider 1996-09-18 22:43:51 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->analyzed

analyzed by joerg. 

Comment 4 Poul-Henning Kamp 1998-04-13 10:19:40 UTC

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From-To: analyzed->suspended

->suspended 

Comment 5 Dag-Erling Smørgrav 1998-04-23 16:59:31 UTC

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From-To: suspended->feedback

Fixed in -current, awaiting reactions from current and stable users. 

Comment 6 Dag-Erling Smørgrav 1998-04-23 16:59:31 UTC

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From-To: freebsd-bugs->des

I'm working on it. 

Comment 7 Dag-Erling Smørgrav 1998-07-15 10:50:54 UTC

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From-To: feedback->closed

MFCed by Jordan.