On Mon, 25 May 2009, Eric Blake wrote:
Huh? Sorting has indeed been done, unless you requested ls -U.
Indeed, stupid me (and thanks to the others who pointed out my error).
So, I'll try again:
ls -lU|head seems to look at all files in directory. It takes just as long
as ls -l|head, yet it's doing no sorting.
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