sort case intermixed but leading dot not

[gregory mott]

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 10:26, David T-G wrote:
> ...gregory mott said...
> % On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 02:30, David T-G wrote:
> % > ...gregory mott said...
> % > % since you also mention locale i will also mention that i do have a
> % > % personal locale i made just for the purpose of sorting things the way i
> % > % want.  my locale sorts case intermixed.  i was floored that sorting case
> % > % intermixed just wasn't available until i cooked up a locale for myself,
> % > 
> % > What, en_US doesn't work for you?  That's what put me *on* this list :-)
> % 
> % uh, it's been awhile since i went thru that exercise but iirc when
> % trying the various available locales i was able to get either both case
> % and leading dot files intermixed or neither.  what i want is case
> % intermixed but leading dot not.
> 
> So you want
> 
>   .foo
>   .Zip
>   bar
>   GOO
>   junk
> 
> for your output?  Yes, I believe that en_US does that for you.  I don't
> use it, so I don't know much about it; I'm just glad I was able to find
> how to put things back to "normal" :-)

uh, well, not here (redhat 9+up2date)
(glibc-common-2.3.2-27.9, coreutils-4.5.3-19):

$  LC_COLLATE=en_US ls -la
total 1706
drwx------   60 g        admin        4096 Jun 12 11:13 .
d--x--x--x    5 root     223          1024 Jun  8 12:18 ..
drwx------    2 g        223          1024 Aug 18  2002 .AbiSuite
-rw-rw-r--    1 g        223             0 Apr 30  2002 .addressbook
-rw-------    1 g        223          2285 Apr 30  2002 .addressbook.lu
-rw-r--r--    1 g        223            29 Dec 11 19:37 .aspell.english.prepl
-rw-r--r--    1 g        223            26 Dec 11 19:37 .aspell.english.pws
-rw-------    1 g        223             0 Jun  3 04:47 .autorun.lck
-rw-------    1 g        admin       85225 Jun 12 08:03 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--    1 g        admin         124 Nov 29  2001 .bashrc
drwx------    2 g        223          1024 Jun 11 17:40 .camel_certs
-rw-r--r--    1 g        223          1277 Jan 15 09:36 candcreatemapgrn.gif
-rw-r--r--    1 g        223           240 Sep 16  2002 .chromium
-rw-r--r--    1 g        223          3800 Sep 16  2002 .chromium-score
-rw-r--r--    1 g        223             0 Oct  5  2002 .civclientrc
-rw-------    1 g        admin           0 Feb 13  2002 .cvspass
lrwxrwxrwx    1 g        admin          22 Sep 18  2002 .DCOPserver_ruby -> 
/g/.DCOPserver_ruby_:0
-rw-r--r--    1 g        g              51 Jun 12 08:09 .DCOPserver_ruby__0
lrwxrwxrwx    1 g        g              22 Jun 12 08:09 .DCOPserver_ruby_:0 -> 
/g/.DCOPserver_ruby__0
drwx------    3 g        223          1024 Jun 12 08:09 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x    5 g        admin        1024 Mar  5  2002 .dia
-rw-r--r--    1 root     223         58183 Sep 18  2002 dum
drwx------    4 g        223          1024 Dec 15 08:42 .ee
-rw-r--r--    1 g        admin         820 Nov 29  2001 .emacs

..etc etc..