[Info-vax] Still no DIR/SORT_BY_TIME

[Paul Sture]

On 2015-08-15, AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 8:55:12 AM UTC-4, VAXman- wrote:

>> 
>> I have products I support that are free of charge; are those not
>> permissable in your environment?
>
> I don't know.
>
> Anyway, I find 
>
> ls -ltr | tail
>
> quite handy. Just can't believe that VMS still doesn't have something
> like that after ~38 years. I was just remarking about it. 

One I've just come across recently in the Linux world (but
unfortunately not on OS X or other Unix-based systems):

sort -h, --human-numeric-sort
           compare human readable numbers (e.g., 2K 1G)

This is particularly useful for the output of 'du':

du -h | sort -h


>
>> 
>> -- 
>> VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker 
>> 
>> I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.
>
> I curse at them.

I refuse to be beaten by them.  I don't always succeed with that :-)


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