ls doesn’t have the version sort option so since you’re aliasing a piped command to sort you’d be passing any additional commands to sort
So
ls -r
Would actually be
/bin/ls | /bin/sort -V -r
You could overcome this with xargs but it’s just definitely a bad idea in general to alias a standard command piped into another command. Will cause headaches.
Where as something like
ls="/bin/ls -r"
Just defaults ls to a reverse sort and you can still safely add additional args.
lsdoesn’t have the version sort option so since you’re aliasing a piped command to sort you’d be passing any additional commands tosortSo
ls -rWould actually be
/bin/ls | /bin/sort -V -rYou could overcome this with xargs but it’s just definitely a bad idea in general to alias a standard command piped into another command. Will cause headaches.
Where as something like
ls="/bin/ls -r"Just defaults
lsto a reverse sort and you can still safely add additional args.Thank for explaining, I hadn’t really thought about trying to add additional flags at runtime.
By the way, my
lsactually has it: