Alas! David T-G spake thus: > % Why not just do 'ls -AlF|sort'? That way all lines showing a > % directory will start with 'd', and all lines that are files will > % start with '-' > > That's true. Of course, you throw away the colors when you pipe the > output, IIRC...
That's true, I suppose.
> % Then you get an alphabetic listing, it automatically puts the
> % directories first.
>
> No, you won't get that -- or at least not with the example above.
> You'd have to tell sort to sort on the first word and then on the 9th
> or 8th (depending on whether or not you show group by default), and
> meanwhile you have to figure out what to do with the "total NNNNNN"
> line that usually comes first.
I guess I wasn't clear -- what I meant was, 'sort' will sort by the
first letter alphabetically -- so all the lines starting with 'd',
directories, will be before all the lines starting with '-', files.
In other words, the alphabetic listing of the output puts the
directories first just because that's how the alphabet works. The files
themselves will be out of order.
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Rob 'Feztaa' Park
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