Re: ls -Xt could do more

[Andreas Schwab]

address@hidden (Dan Jacobson) writes:

|> One would think that ls -Xt would sort first by suffix, then within by
|> date within the same suffix.  But alas.  Anyway, even if "it's not in
|> the spec", it also "wouldn't be against the spec" if it did.

It is.  POSIX says:

-t      Sort with the primary key being time modified (most recently
        modified first) and the secondary key being filename in the
        collating sequence.

No place for a different primary sort key.

Andreas.

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