Valentin Nechayev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 02:34:04, andrit wrote about "Re: /bin/ls sorting bug?": > > But there is nice sort command and power of unix. > > Don't you remember the initial UNIX concept to make miracles by small > > things fired together? :) > > Well, let's disable sorting in ls output totally and give this role to sort. > I thinks folks won't adopt this idea, especially said that ls output > isn't easily machine-parseable.
That's why I've always wanted an ls flag to output the time stamp in time_t form (i.e. seconds since the epoch). Would make a lot of scripts a lot easier. (Yes, I know we've got "/usr/bin/stat -r", but that's not portable.) Regards Oliver PS: Don't get me wrong; I'm _not_ asking for such a flag to ls, as it wouldn't help for portable scripts. PPS: FWIW, I like the patch (the second one which takes nanoseconds correctly into account). I would also suggest an option to display the nanoseconds in ls -l output. Maybe when -T is specified twice ...? (That way we wouldn't waste yet another letter.) -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker" -- Daniel C. Sobral _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"