Re: ls sorting order change

2012-05-03 Thread Dan B.
Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 02 May 2012 15:28:33 -0400, Dan B. wrote: ... I guess now I need to figure out where I might like to see things in the "new" order vs. where I still want to see things in LC_COLLATE=C order.) Is that "that new"? The above output is from my Lenny system and that was the

Re: ls sorting order change

2012-05-03 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 02 May 2012 15:28:33 -0400, Dan B. wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 01 May 2012 15:10:23 -0400, Dan B. wrote: ... >> >>> On a fresh Squeeze installation, ls seems to ignore leading "." >>> characters (it no longer lists all "hidden" files adjacent to each >>> other) and to ignore capit

Re: ls sorting order change

2012-05-02 Thread Dan B.
Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 01 May 2012 15:10:23 -0400, Dan B. wrote: ... On a fresh Squeeze installation, ls seems to ignore leading "." characters (it no longer lists all "hidden" files adjacent to each other) and to ignore capitalization differences. (...) Can you post a sample of the command

Re: ls sorting order change

2012-05-02 Thread Dan B.
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-05-01 21:10 +0200, Dan B. wrote: What controls the order that the ls command uses for sorting names? The locale or more specifically, the LC_COLLATE setting. See locale(7). > ... .. LC_COLLATE=C for many years. Thanks. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: ls sorting order change

2012-05-02 Thread Dan B.
Wayne Topa wrote: On 05/01/2012 03:10 PM, Dan B. wrote: What controls the order that the ls command uses for sorting names? ... ... Well man ls says " List information about the FILEs (the current directory by default). Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuvSUX nor --sort is specifi

Re: ls sorting order change

2012-05-02 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 01 May 2012 15:10:23 -0400, Dan B. wrote: > What controls the order that the ls command uses for sorting names? >From "man ls" → info coreutils 'ls invocation' anf here it can be read: *** By default, the output is sorted alphabetically, according to the locale settings in effect.(1) If

Re: ls sorting order change

2012-05-02 Thread Clive Standbridge
> > On a fresh Squeeze installation, ls seems to ignore leading "." > characters (it no longer lists all "hidden" files adjacent to each > other) and to ignore capitalization differences. Hi Daniel, To list the hidden files, use the -a or -A option (the latter omits . and ..). Maybe you had one

Re: ls sorting order change

2012-05-01 Thread John Hasler
Dan B. wrote: > What controls the order that the ls command uses for sorting names? LC_COLLATE. Set it to "C". -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.d

Re: ls sorting order change

2012-05-01 Thread Wayne Topa
On 05/01/2012 03:10 PM, Dan B. wrote: What controls the order that the ls command uses for sorting names? On a fresh Squeeze installation, ls seems to ignore leading "." characters (it no longer lists all "hidden" files adjacent to each other) and to ignore capitalization differences. It used

Re: ls sorting order change

2012-05-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-05-01 21:10 +0200, Dan B. wrote: > What controls the order that the ls command uses for sorting names? The locale or more specifically, the LC_COLLATE setting. See locale(7). > On a fresh Squeeze installation, ls seems to ignore leading "." > characters (it no longer lists all "hidden"