Turns out, "ls --sort=t" is not a valid syntax for FreeBSD, but "ls -t" has
the same function, and is accepted by both GNU and FreeBSD.
modified: fs/backup_diff.sh
. $1
FILENAME=${DIFFNAME}${APPEND}
cd ${STORAGE}
-dar --verbose --alter=atime --empty-dir --fs-root / --noconf --create ${STORAGE}${FILENAME} --ref $(ls --sort=t ${STORAGE}*.dar | head -n 1 | cut -d. -f1) -zbzip2:9 -an --exclude-from-file ${EXCLUDE}
+dar --verbose --alter=atime --empty-dir --fs-root / --noconf --create ${STORAGE}${FILENAME} --ref $(ls -1t ${STORAGE}*.dar | head -n 1 | cut -d. -f1) -zbzip2:9 -an --exclude-from-file ${EXCLUDE}
case $(uname) in
Linux) md5sum -b ${FILENAME}*.dar >> $(ls --sort=t ${FULLNAME}*.md5 | head -n 1);;