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make each ls sort option say what is first on the man page

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Message #10 received at 20172-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>, 
 20172-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20172: make each ls sort option say what is first on the
 man page
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 09:05:23 +0000

On 23/03/15 00:37, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Please make
> $ man ls|grep -e -[St].*sort
>        -S     sort by file size
>        -t     sort by modification time, newest first
> say
> $ man ls|grep -e -[St].*sort
>        -S     sort by file size, largest first
>        -t     sort by modification time, newest first
> even though yes, documented elsewhere.
> There may be others too...

Makes sense, and is similar to:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=v8.12-31-g50ca38e

I've pushed this in your name:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=01fb984

thanks!
Pádraig.

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