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pirolgra

pirolgra

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Nov 11, 2002
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what's the command to sort the directory in descending order ?

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By date? ls -ltr will give a list of files, oldest first. ls -lt will give you the newest first (add a | pg to pause one page at a time).
 
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I don't think there is one - I tryed man ls which is where you should start.

What I use to sort by size is
Code: 
du -sk * | sort -rn | pg

Columb Healy
 
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