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Re: Moving rc.d scripts to base.tgz



On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:15:19AM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> > Since you give an example with ls being standard and containing
> > 'every option they [most people] could possibly want',
> 
> I found that amusing, because it was just a day or two ago I added a
> new option to (my) ls.  (I made it sort numbers numerically rather than
> lexicographically, so that, for example, file42.txt sorts before
> file107.txt, and added an option to get the strict lexicographic sort.
> I'm still not sure whether I'm going to leave the code in, leave it in
> but reverse the sense of the flag, take it out, or what.)

Neat.  This sounds like a job for sort(1). :-)

Dave

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