Re: Documentation discrepancy for ls -f
Andreas Schwab <[email protected]> Fri, 03 Mar 2006 20:11:01 +0100
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[email protected] (Niels M=F6ller) writes: > why the option character 'f' (force) is selected for that. That 'f' probably stands for 'fast' (from the days when sorting was deeme= d expensive). Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [email protected] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."