> AFAIK, this is standard on any Unix platform, not just OS X. This is incorrect, and the linked question actually mentions this… > This differs from what ls

> AFAIK, this is standard on any Unix platform, not just OS X. This is incorrect, and the linked question actually mentions this… > This differs from what ls on Linux (the one coming from coreutils) does. > I also fail to see why this is news, this behaviour is decades old. Straight from the guidelines, > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. I found it interesting, as the behavior surprises me, and I had no idea BSD ls did this.