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 capitalization differences. >> >> (...) >> >> Can you post a sample of the command you issued and the ouput you got? > > It was like (using made-up names): > > .aaa > bbb > ccc > DDD > EEE > .fff > > when I expected: > > .aaa > .fff > DDD > EEE > bbb > ccc
Let's see: sm01@stt008:~/Desktop/test$ locale LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_TIME="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_NAME="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_ALL= So this is the default "ls" sorting: sm01@stt008:~/Desktop/test$ ls -la total 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 sm01 sm01 192 may 3 18:33 . drwxr-xr-x 10 sm01 sm01 816 may 3 18:32 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 sm01 sm01 0 may 3 18:32 .aaa -rw-r--r-- 1 sm01 sm01 0 may 3 18:32 bbb -rw-r--r-- 1 sm01 sm01 0 may 3 18:32 ccc -rw-r--r-- 1 sm01 sm01 0 may 3 18:33 DDD -rw-r--r-- 1 sm01 sm01 0 may 3 18:33 EEE -rw-r--r-- 1 sm01 sm01 0 may 3 18:33 .fff While changing the locale: sm01@stt008:~/Desktop/test$ LANG=C ls -la total 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 sm01 sm01 192 May 3 18:33 . drwxr-xr-x 10 sm01 sm01 816 May 3 18:43 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 sm01 sm01 0 May 3 18:32 .aaa -rw-r--r-- 1 sm01 sm01 0 May 3 18:33 .fff -rw-r--r-- 1 sm01 sm01 0 May 3 18:33 DDD -rw-r--r-- 1 sm01 sm01 0 May 3 18:33 EEE -rw-r--r-- 1 sm01 sm01 0 May 3 18:32 bbb -rw-r--r-- 1 sm01 sm01 0 May 3 18:32 ccc > 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 default setup two years ago :-? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jnuctq$78r$7...@dough.gmane.org
