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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/31/22 09:58, 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.
> 

The point being?

bill