Subject: please give list a --sort=name option

From: Marc Haber <[email-masked]>
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

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