"Anthony E. Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 19-May-2002/20:02 -0400, Statux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>The old default behavior of "ls" was to list directory contents in
>>alphabetical order with hidden objects first before regular objects. Now
>>adays, "ls" ignores the leading '.' of object names and the case, and just
>>puts everything in ABC order.
>
> I'm pretty sure that dotfiles begin with a dot to take advantage of the
> default behavior of ls (hide dotfiles). This is old UNIX behavior. If it
> was different on systems you used, it may have been vendor-specific or a
> customization by local sysadmins.
>
>>How would one go about changing things back to the old ways?
>
> Add to /etc/bashrc:
>
> alias ls='ls --color -a'
>
I think OP is talking about the change some time ago where an env
setting is no longer being set that causes the behavior he descibes.
My remedy is to make the setting my self.
I noticed it when I installed 7.1 about a year ago
Not sure what the change was that redhat made but this fixes it for
me:
LC_COLLATE=C;export LC_COLLATE
Set that variable at the command line like above
Then try ls -al (is it properly sorted?)
unset it like:
$ unset LC_COLLATE
Then try ls -al again (is it intermixed now?)
So if that works, you can put it in your .bash_profile or even system
wide: /etc/profile
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