On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 11:07:04AM -0400, Lee wrote: > I can fix the problem by aliasing ls to 'LC_COLLATE=C ls' but that > seems klunky and would only fix ls (and not break anything else). How > bad of an idea would it be to set > LC_COLLATE=C > in my .bashrc or is there some other setting to get dot files listed > first, then uppercase, then lowercase?
This will affect ls, and also the expansion of globs. It's totally fine, assuming this is what you want, and assuming you don't have a lot of files with non-ASCII characters in their names. This is exactly what locale settings are for. Don't forget to export it.
