On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 02:40:57PM +0100, Raphaël Proust wrote: > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Alexander S. <[email protected]> wrote: > > Uh, cannot this be achieved by piping output to tac? > > At which points someone asks why is there a sorted order at all in ls > output… cannot this be achieved by piping output to sort?
It's date sorted, so it could be done by a pipeline, but not anywhere near as usably as ls -t[r]. This is the sort of functionality that to me is definitely worth the extra lines of code.
