Greg Wooledge (HE12025-10-31): > On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 21:51:16 -0700, Michael Paoli wrote: > > $ ls ... | sort > > may give results different than, e.g. ls -1 or what one might > > otherwise be expecting/anticipating, > You'd have to work pretty hard for that to be true. Can you come up > with an actual example? Remember, POSIX says
The sort order will almost certainly be the same, yes. OTOH, the output format can be different. Try this with a recent enough version of GNU ls: touch stupid\ name ls -1 ls | cat Regards, -- Nicolas George
