Re: ls'ing dirs before files

[Gary Turner <kk5st@swbell.net>]

On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 23:03:43 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:

>sometime last year, the /bin/ls behaviour changed to sorting files and
>dirs interspersed. how can i make /bin/ls first list all dirs, then
>all files, and each of them sorted by filename within itself?

What a neat little opportunity for self-edification :)

My first thought was to do ls -l | sort.  That will order as directory,
link, and regular files, but mess up order within the class, since
permissions are next, then nodes, then owner, then... :(

So now I'll read the FMs for sed and regex and maybe awk to see about
reworking the sort order.  Don't wait up for me, Mom.  I'll be late.
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