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author | dd <dd@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-07-22 10:33:31 +0000 |
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committer | dd <dd@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-07-22 10:33:31 +0000 |
commit | ae62c846d37482ceec97eabcf17b2d26277f5998 (patch) | |
tree | 5720c8b0595ccc115a5dde5f9e7d558b965ffc65 /bin | |
parent | 0b09f5187cb00dd42a76c5b5cda52ba6d0c44830 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-ae62c846d37482ceec97eabcf17b2d26277f5998.zip FreeBSD-src-ae62c846d37482ceec97eabcf17b2d26277f5998.tar.gz |
Don't put a shell prompt in the example since none of the other man
pages do it. Also, don't use brackets to indicate optional options in
the example; instead, add a paragraph below the example explaining it.
Diffstat (limited to 'bin')
-rw-r--r-- | bin/ls/ls.1 | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/bin/ls/ls.1 b/bin/ls/ls.1 index 3327f4d..959b1e3 100644 --- a/bin/ls/ls.1 +++ b/bin/ls/ls.1 @@ -363,9 +363,15 @@ The following is how to do an .Nm listing sorted by size (and shows why .Nm -does not need this functionality). +does not need a separate option for this): .Pp -.Dl "% ls -l | sort [-r] -n +4" +.Dl "ls -l | sort -n +4" +.Pp +Additionally, you may want to use the +.Fl r +flag to +.Xr sort 1 +to get the results sorted from largest to smallest (a reverse sort). .Sh DIAGNOSTICS The .Nm |