[Info-vax] Still no DIR/SORT_BY_TIME

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On Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 8:50:09 AM UTC-4, VAXman- wrote:
> In article <mqgud0$243$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <dxxx> writes:
> >Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> >> On 2015-08-12 21:32:31 +0000, hb said:
> >> 
> >>> On 08/12/2015 09:35 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> >>>> For a creation-date sort, use:
> >>>>
> >>>> ls -tU.
> >>>
> >>> If that works, it looks like a (GNV?) extension, which doesn't show in 
> >>> (GNV's) "--help"
> >> 
> >> -U is BSD and OS X, not GNV nor POSIX nor systemd.
> >> 
> >> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/91197/how-to-find-creation-date-of-file 
> >> 
> >> http://superuser.com/questions/703768/is-there-really-no-way-in-linux-to-get-creation-time-for-files-on-cifs-smb-share 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> End result, the creation time is available on most sane platforms, 
> >> though the syntax varies.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >
> >That unix shit is butt ugly ...
> 
> But unix users have eyesight wrecked by that syntax, so they can't truly see
> how ugly that butt may be! :)
> 
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How about bash? It has many advantages over the DCL command line.

Still can't get to the first line of a two-line command. Recall buffer with changing numbers. Not as easy to get around the command line. (OTOH, running !<n> to run the command with that number runs it immediately instead of just putting it on the command line where you can edit it. MS-DOS is better at this!) Then there's file-name autocomplete. And ^R command recall. I don't think the DCL command line has been updated ever.

And then there's DCL PIPE. Yeah, that's real pretty.