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From: sung@cs.washington.edu (Sung Kwon Chung)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: ls -lt *.c doesn't sort files by time as I expected it would
Message-ID: <10346@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 12 Jan 90 00:12:29 GMT
References: <1990Jan11.070247.11716@virtech.uucp>
Reply-To: sung@june.cs.washington.edu (Sung Kwon Chung)
Organization: University of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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In article <1990Jan11.070247.11716@virtech.uucp> dennis@virtech.uucp (Dennis P. Bednar) writes:
>to list files sorted by time order. When I was testing it, I
>discovered that if I did:
>	ls -lt
>it properly sorted all of the files in the current directory, but
>if I tried:
>	ls -lt *.c
>it didn't sort by the time. Any easy fixes to ls.c? Does ls.c
>have this same problem on minix (did I break something in my
>port)?

I found the same problem in minix, too.  It doesn't sort file names
specified in arguemnt.  Here is a quick fix.  (I didn't look carefully
all the codes, so it might cause some bad side effects.  But I havn't
met any, yet.)

-sung
==================
*** ls.c.org	Mon Jan  1 02:25:24 1990
--- ls.c	Wed Jan  3 23:10:25 1990
***************
*** 430,435 ****
--- 430,437 ----
    }
    ostringp = stringp;
  
+   sortfiles(baseindex, lastindex - baseindex); /* sort file names in arg, too*/
+ 
    for (i = baseindex; i < lastindex; ++i) {
  	if (!(flags_f && baseindex == 0) && (include_dirs
  	     || (sortindex[i]->f_stat.st_mode & S_IFMT) != S_IFDIR))