[cs631apue] ls: when -S and -t are both given?

[Jan Schaumann]

jphillip <jphillip at stevens.edu> wrote:
> What should the behavior of the program be if -S and -t are both  
> specified?  They are two different ways of sorting (size or time) so it  
> seems you can do one or the other.  Should one take precedence?  Thanks

Whenever you have conflicting options (whether or not they are
explicitly called out as such in the manual page or not), the last one
specified takes precedence.

Usually you can also compare the behaviour of the system's ls(1) and see
what it does to help you decide.

-Jan