Re: quick howto-command questions?

[Jimmy Richards <linuxrh@home.com>]

Hello Colin,



    Ok, Thanks for the info. I think I have been piping stuff through
    grep helping people on IRC so much lately I forgot that yeah, 'ls'
    output is already sorted!




Jim Richards




On 20 Mar 2001 11:06:22 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> Jimmy Richards <linuxrh@home.com> wrote:
> >    4)    ls *.c | sort
> 
> 'ls' originally stood for "List and Sort", as I remember - at any rate,
> it already sorts. Its default output format isn't one on which 'sort'
> would be particularly useful anyway.
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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