Package: coreutils Version: 5.2.1-2 Severity: normal
I noticed today some weird behavior with ls. After years and years of using UNIX-type systems, I have become pretty accustomed to 'ls -a' displaying all files beginning with a . first, and then "regular" files. today, I noticed that the files were being sorted alphabetically, and the . seemed to be getting ignored. I also just noticed that a filename starting with a capital letter is not being sorted before filenames beginning with lowercase letters, which is also not the "normal" behavior that I am used to. here's a sample: (11:14:13) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ls -al ~test total 10 drwxr-xr-x 2 test test 2048 2007-02-08 11:14 . drwxrwsr-x 8 root staff 2048 2007-02-08 10:01 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 test test 0 2007-02-08 11:13 Alpha -rw------- 1 test test 221 2007-02-08 11:14 .bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 test test 567 2007-02-08 09:52 .bash_profile -rw-r--r-- 1 test test 1834 2007-02-08 09:52 .bashrc -rw-r--r-- 1 test test 0 2007-02-08 11:13 beta -rw-r--r-- 1 test test 0 2007-02-08 09:52 moo -rw-r--r-- 1 test test 0 2007-02-08 11:14 Sigma -rw-r--r-- 1 test test 0 2007-02-08 09:53 .test this happens for any normal user, regardless of the shell. what makes this extra strange is that if I su, or log into the console as root, the "correct" behavior occurs: badger:~# ls -al ~test total 10 drwxr-xr-x 2 test test 2048 Feb 8 11:14 . drwxrwsr-x 8 root staff 2048 Feb 8 10:01 .. -rw------- 1 test test 221 Feb 8 11:14 .bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 test test 567 Feb 8 09:52 .bash_profile -rw-r--r-- 1 test test 1834 Feb 8 09:52 .bashrc -rw-r--r-- 1 test test 0 Feb 8 09:53 .test -rw-r--r-- 1 test test 0 Feb 8 11:13 Alpha -rw-r--r-- 1 test test 0 Feb 8 11:14 Sigma -rw-r--r-- 1 test test 0 Feb 8 11:13 beta -rw-r--r-- 1 test test 0 Feb 8 09:52 moo I am using etch (testing), and the coreutils version reported by 'ls --version' is 5.2.1. there is no ls option I can find that modifies this behavior, nor can I find any documentation about it anywhere. two friends of mine are running sarge, one with ls 5.97, and one with ls 5.2.1. neither demonstrates this issue. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.23-1 Access control list shared library ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
