Debian Bug report logs - #259713
please give list a --sort=name option

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Package: coreutils; Maintainer for coreutils is Michael Stone <[email protected]>; Source for coreutils is src:coreutils (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Marc Haber <[email protected]>

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:03:05 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 5.2.1-1

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From: Marc Haber <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: please give list a --sort=name option
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:24:43 +0200
Package: coreutils
Version: 5.2.1-1
Severity: wishlist
File: /bin/ls

Hi,

ls sorts alphabetically automatically. This is good. However, sometimes
one wants to emphasize that ls output is expected alpha-sorted. Please
consider allowing --sort=name to explicitly specify the default.

Greetings
Marc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-zg1-vash
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE

Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii  libacl1                     2.2.23-1     Access control list shared library
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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