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doc: ls: say something about competing ls options

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: say something about competing ls options
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:34:50 +0800

At the bottom of
(info "(coreutils) Sorting the output")
mention something like:

===Competing options===
Sometimes one gives "competing options" to ls,
e.g., ls -lXS

Well it turns out in the case of ls -lXS or ls -lSX, one will always
get...

There is no way to sort first via X and then via S within...,
or first via S and then via X within...



Please do mention something, else one gets wild dreams.

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