Re: The ls command

[Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>]

Greg Wooledge (HE12025-10-31):
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 21:51:16 -0700, Michael Paoli wrote:
> > $ ls ... | sort
> > may give results different than, e.g. ls -1 or what one might
> > otherwise be expecting/anticipating,
> You'd have to work pretty hard for that to be true.  Can you come up
> with an actual example?  Remember, POSIX says

The sort order will almost certainly be the same, yes.

OTOH, the output format can be different. Try this with a recent enough
version of GNU ls:

touch stupid\ name
ls -1
ls | cat

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George