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> 
> On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Oliver Ob wrote:
> 
> > I set some aliases like alias $='ls -alX', and now I am experiencing
> > that I do not get what I wanted.
> >
> > I would like the appearance of the LS output to be like under good old
> > dos with "doscmd=/o:gen" or "dir /o:gen", that is directories sorted
> > in a-z order FIRST, then the a-z sorted FILES.   ******
> >
> >  Any thoughts?
> Why do you want this?
Simple: I want $ output sorted.

> Bearing in mind that I have no freaking idea what "dir o:/gen" is spoze
> to look like, 
well i wrote just that above.... see "******"

> and I don't think you can use a pipe in an alias (you'll
> have to make it a shell script) how is this?  Put it in
> /usr/local/bin/duhh, say, and don't forget to make it executable.
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> ls -l $@ |sort -k 1.1,1.1r -k 9
> 
> If you pull it out of the mail, you might need to fromdos it first
> before you use it:
> 
> tr -d "\r" <dosfile >unixfile
> 
> or just use an editor to strip out any carriage returns (control-m).
> 
> Thanks, I just learned how to do sort keys.
thanks too i will try that out.


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