[ale] When a script is necessary, and when a piped command is sufficient ?

[fletch at phydeaux.org]

> 	ls -l | sort +5

And I didn't mention it in the other message but one (or more :) of the
nine million flags of ls is -t which sorts by date (default is new => old,
add -r to get old => new).  The external sort's unnecessary.

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