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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Dot files always first in directory?
Message-ID: <10215@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 5 May 89 16:39:26 GMT
References: <11108@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <3540@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> <2778@buengc.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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>In article <3540@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> conan@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Robert B Carroll) writes:
>try "touch #abcd" then 'list' the directory.

The order in which "ls" lists directory entries has nothing
to do with their order in the directory.