Re: Documentation discrepancy for ls -f

2006-03-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Andreas Schwab wrote: > Niels Möller writes: > > why the option character 'f' (force) is selected for that. > > That 'f' probably stands for 'fast' (from the days when sorting was deemed > expensive). Like yourself I had always assumed it was meant to be "fast" for exactly the reason you said. B

Re: Documentation discrepancy for ls -f

2006-03-07 Thread Paul Eggert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels Möller) writes: > while the message from ls --help says > > -f do not sort, enable -aU, disable -lst > > This differs with respect to the -t and --color options. That -f > disables --color seems to match the implementation. Thanks for reporting t