>
> Also in the category of 'ls' trivia, there appears to be no
> option (that I
> can find) to prevent ls from sorting the listing by *some*
> key, so that
> there's no way to use ls to display the "natural" directory
> order (i.e. the
> order of entries within the directory itself) which will be
> the order that
> some program (like 'tar' and many backup programs I believe)
> will actually
> process the files in the directory.

Those may be done in inode order, in which case

$ ls -i | sort -n

will do the trick.