On Monday 23 February 2009 22:12:48 Sven Joachim wrote: > I just upgraded coreutils from 6.12 to 7.1, and the new sorting behavior > of `ls -v' really irritates me. Backup files are listed before the real > files, parent directory (..) at the very end... At first I thought that ls -v means "sort by version". In ascending order you have older versions before the newer. And the backed up version is the older version of the file, isn't it?
> I had sorted by time and not by name in Emacs' dired: > > ,---- > > | dired-listing-switches is a variable defined in `dired.el'. > | Its value is "-alv" > > `---- > > Is there a way to get the old behavior back? > By the way, this change is briefly mentioned in the NEWS file > > ,---- > > | * Noteworthy changes in release 7.0 (2008-10-05) [beta] > | [...] > | ls -v now uses filevercmp function as sort predicate (instead of > | strverscmp) > > `---- > > but it is not reflected in the manual node > (Info "(coreutils) More details about version sort"). Indeed. I'll write a patch to update Texinfo documentation. Kamil _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
