From 703bf76847c96fec716225ee79ae5afe5992919f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 05:01:50 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Show an example of how to sort a file listing by size. 
 Hopefully this will reduce the number of people calling for this
 functionality to be added to ls(1).

---
 bin/ls/ls.1 | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/bin/ls/ls.1 b/bin/ls/ls.1
index 8728d7a72eb..164e32db5e4 100644
--- a/bin/ls/ls.1
+++ b/bin/ls/ls.1
@@ -358,6 +358,14 @@ or
 .Xr sticky 8 . )
 .El
 .El
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+The following is how to do an
+.Nm
+listing sorted by size (and shows why
+.Nm
+does not need this functionality.
+.Pp
+.Dl "% ls -l | sort [-r] -n +4"
 .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
 The
 .Nm
@@ -525,6 +533,7 @@ specification.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr chflags 1 ,
 .Xr chmod 1 ,
+.Xr sort 1 ,
 .Xr xterm 1 ,
 .Xr termcap 5 ,
 .Xr symlink 7 ,