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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Dot files always first in directory?
Message-ID: <30746@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 6 May 89 14:56:04 GMT
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>NO, its not save to assume that.
>try "touch #abcd" then 'list' the directory.

Gack, "ls" sorts its output by default, try "ls -f" or just "od -c"
the directory and see what you get. It's still not a safe assumption,
but for other reasons.

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