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

[Dave Froble]

On 1/31/2022 9:58 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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
>

No, try and compare actual code to perform the task.  Python has libraries of 
extensive code to perform selected tasks.  Just because invoking those library 
routines appears to be simple doesn't make the actual code small.  Usually when 
generic code attempts to perform a task, the code size will be larger than task 
specific code.

There ain't no magic.  You just don't see it.

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