Re: problem with ls -a

[Jim Meyering]

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
...