>>>>> "Jaroslaw" == Jaroslaw Rafa <r...@rafa.eu.org> writes:
> Dnia 12.09.2022 o godz. 12:30:29 John Stoffel pisze: >> Sure, 'ls -l' doesn't do any sorting, it just reads the directory >> information as returned from the disk and show you the results. If >> you want it by time, you need to do: >> >> ls -ltr >> >> to have the newest files be at the end. > 'ls' (and 'ls -l' as well) by default sorts files alphabetically. It has > always been so. Ooops, you're right! I was blanking on that since I was still thinking of the opendir() and readdir() calls which don't sort directory entries. > For unsorted list, one needs to use 'ls -lU' (that applies to GNU version of > 'ls'; other versions may not recognize the '-U' switch). Yup!