Re: The ls command

[Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>]

Greg Wooledge (HE12025-10-31):
> From the bash 5.3 man page:
> 
>        GLOBSORT

They did it with a global variable? Urgh. At least they do not import
from the environment, that would have been extremely stupid.

> Versions of bash before 5.3 have no way to control the order of glob
> expansion, other than changing LC_COLLATE or the like.

… which does not give a lot of useful choice.

I like zsh way much better:

echo *(om)

(I do not have files with stupid names except in well-isolated
directories.)

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George