2017-03-15 08:08:40 -0500, Eric Blake: > I've frequently forgotten whether it is 'ls --sort=date' or 'ls > --sort=time'. Can we support both spellings, as synonyms, instead of me > having to resort to the help output every time I guess wrong? [...]
Some alternatives: use the standard ls -t (which you can also use as a mnemonic to know that it's --sort=time and not --sort=date as ls -d is not about sorting) Use a modern shell like zsh or fish that will offer you the right completion (fish's has extra incorrect values though). Other mnemonic: --sort=time goes with the --time option to tell which of the atime, Btime, ctime, mtime time that by-time sorting is done. One may argue that if we add a --sort=date, we should also add a --date=mdate/cdate/adate... -- Stephane
