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"

ls sorting order change

2012-05-01 Thread Dan B.
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 to sort in standard/traditional Unix or