[Info-vax] Suggestion: Adding a /SORT option to DIRECTORY and F$SEARCH ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/31/2022 7:17 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <sspht9$20h$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
> <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> 
>> It would be nice to be able to see the output from a DIRECTORY command
>> optionally sorted by one of largest size, smallest size, oldest date,
>> newest date, etc.
>>
>> Likewise, it would be nice to be able to optionally specify the sort
>> order in which filenames are returned by f$search().
>>
>> Does anyone agree ?
> 
> Yes, would be nice.
> 
> ----------8<--------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 1 SDIR
> 
> The Sorted DIRectory command produces a directory listing sorted by either
> creation date or size.  The default is date.  If no filespec is specified,
> the current directory is listed.
> 
> Note that none of the system DIRECTORY command qualifiers work.
> 
>      SDIR [qualifiers] [filespec]
> 
> /Descending
> 
> Causes the output to be printed in descending order instead of ascending
> order.  By default, the most recent files (or largest) are produced at
> the end of the list.  /Descned will reverse the order.
> 
> /Size
> 
> Causes the listing to be sorted by file size instead of date.
> 
>        PROGRAM SDIR

Fortran

:-)

But try and compare number of lines with the Python code.

Arne