Nushell: auto sort-by name for ls on macOS
Version: 0.3.0
Installed via Cargo
On my Windows machine, it seems that ls sorts the results by name automatically (not sure if this is a function of ls or autoview). I was also expecting this same behavior on my macOS machine, but it turns out that's not the case.
Is this an error on my end? Is this expected? Is there a way to configure this?
/Users/zooce/Developer> ls
━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
# │ name │ type │ readonly │ size │ created │ accessed │ modified
────┼────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┼──────────┼────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────
0 │ OpenPixelProject │ Directory │ │ 160 B │ 4 months ago │ 3 weeks ago │ 4 months ago
1 │ .DS_Store │ File │ │ 8.2 KB │ 4 years ago │ a day ago │ 3 months ago
2 │ SDKs │ Directory │ │ 160 B │ 5 months ago │ 3 weeks ago │ 5 months ago
3 │ libLCS-0.0.59.zip │ File │ │ 1.3 MB │ 4 months ago │ 4 months ago │ 4 months ago
4 │ other │ Directory │ │ 544 B │ 4 years ago │ 3 weeks ago │ 4 months ago
5 │ logisim-macosx-2.7.1.tar.gz │ File │ │ 6.4 MB │ 4 months ago │ 4 months ago │ 4 months ago
6 │ Logisim.app │ Directory │ │ 128 B │ 9 years ago │ 3 weeks ago │ 9 years ago
7 │ OMSCS │ Directory │ │ 512 B │ 2 years ago │ a day ago │ 2 weeks ago
8 │ zooce.itermcolors │ File │ │ 8.4 KB │ 7 months ago │ 7 months ago │ 7 months ago
9 │ Github │ Directory │ │ 1.8 KB │ 4 years ago │ 3 weeks ago │ 3 weeks ago
10 │ ML │ Directory │ │ 992 B │ a year ago │ a week ago │ a year ago
11 │ mbadolato-iTerm2-Color-Schemes-b349774 │ Directory │ │ 608 B │ 8 months ago │ 3 weeks ago │ 8 months ago
12 │ externlibs │ Directory │ │ 96 B │ 3 months ago │ 3 weeks ago │ 3 months ago
13 │ rust_by_example │ Directory │ │ 96 B │ 3 months ago │ 3 weeks ago │ 3 months ago
14 │ Fonts │ Directory │ │ 160 B │ 3 years ago │ 3 weeks ago │ 3 years ago
15 │ Godot │ Directory │ │ 128 B │ 4 months ago │ 3 weeks ago │ 4 months ago
━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
/Users/zooce/Developer> ls | sort-by name
━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
# │ name │ type │ readonly │ size │ created │ accessed │ modified
────┼────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┼──────────┼────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────
0 │ .DS_Store │ File │ │ 8.2 KB │ 4 years ago │ a day ago │ 3 months ago
1 │ Fonts │ Directory │ │ 160 B │ 3 years ago │ 3 weeks ago │ 3 years ago
2 │ Github │ Directory │ │ 1.8 KB │ 4 years ago │ 3 weeks ago │ 3 weeks ago
3 │ Godot │ Directory │ │ 128 B │ 4 months ago │ 3 weeks ago │ 4 months ago
4 │ Logisim.app │ Directory │ │ 128 B │ 9 years ago │ 3 weeks ago │ 9 years ago
5 │ ML │ Directory │ │ 992 B │ a year ago │ a week ago │ a year ago
6 │ OMSCS │ Directory │ │ 512 B │ 2 years ago │ a day ago │ 2 weeks ago
7 │ OpenPixelProject │ Directory │ │ 160 B │ 4 months ago │ 3 weeks ago │ 4 months ago
8 │ SDKs │ Directory │ │ 160 B │ 5 months ago │ 3 weeks ago │ 5 months ago
9 │ externlibs │ Directory │ │ 96 B │ 3 months ago │ 3 weeks ago │ 3 months ago
10 │ libLCS-0.0.59.zip │ File │ │ 1.3 MB │ 4 months ago │ 4 months ago │ 4 months ago
11 │ logisim-macosx-2.7.1.tar.gz │ File │ │ 6.4 MB │ 4 months ago │ 4 months ago │ 4 months ago
12 │ mbadolato-iTerm2-Color-Schemes-b349774 │ Directory │ │ 608 B │ 8 months ago │ 3 weeks ago │ 8 months ago
13 │ other │ Directory │ │ 544 B │ 4 years ago │ 3 weeks ago │ 4 months ago
14 │ rust_by_example │ Directory │ │ 96 B │ 3 months ago │ 3 weeks ago │ 3 months ago
15 │ zooce.itermcolors │ File │ │ 8.4 KB │ 7 months ago │ 7 months ago │ 7 months ago
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Zooce
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andrasio
on 3 Nov 2019
The files are unordered on Linux as well. I switched to lsd because of this.
Aloso
on 6 Nov 2019
This was fixed in #1192.
coolshaurya
on 25 Jan 2020
It's being removed in https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/1286. I like this PR because it unifies two codepaths. Previously, a glob pattern wouldn't result in sorted results, meaning the behaviour was already inconsistent, so I don't feel like we're losing anything by dropping that code for now.
I wonder if we could have some configuration that would result in expanding ls differently when it's at the end of the pipeline. For example, ls would expand into ls | sort-by name | autoview. We could also have ls consume that configuration. Thoughts?
Regardless, sorting can be expensive and unnecessary in a lot of cases, so I'd rather it be opt-in via configuration/flag than opt-in by default. That's my five cents 🙂
thegedge
on 28 Jan 2020
I totally agree that defaulting to the sorted case is probably not the best idea.
+1 for allowing this to be configurable -- this way I don't have to add a flag or pipe it to sort-by every time
(either way, nu_shell is dope -- to all contributors, keep up the great work!)
Zooce
on 4 Feb 2020
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