Re: problem with ls -a

[Joe Halpin]

Yep, setting LC_COLLATE=C gives the results I was expecting.

That might be a good thing to put in the man page. I didn't see this
explained in the info page either.

Thanks

Joe

Jim Meyering wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the report.
> That's not a bug.  Two others have recently raised the same point.
> Here's how I've replied:
> 
>   http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-fileutils/2001-June/001782.html
>   http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-fileutils/2001-June/001781.html
> 
> Joe Halpin <address@hidden> wrote:
> | I hadn't noticed this personally because I don't use the -a option that
> | much. But I saw a discussion about it on comp.unix.shell, and thought
> | I'd mention it in case nobody else did.
> |
> | What people have come to expect from -a is that the dot files will all
> | appear before other files. In the ls that comes with fileutils 4.0.36,
> | they are intermixed. For example:
> |
> | $ unalias ls
> | $ ls -a
> | .                       News
> | ..                      .newsrc
> | .acrorc                         .newsrc~
> | .bash_history           .newsrc.eld
> | .bash_logout            .newsrc.eld~
> | .bash_profile           .newsrc-news
> | .bashrc                         nsmail
> | bin                     office52
> | .cddbslave              personal
> | core                    pictures
> ...