Hi Pablo,
On Mon, 2026-02-23 at 19:17 +0100, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote:
> but https://modules.contextgarden.net/dl/ sorts the `basicexam-*.zip`
> files in a rather uncommon way:
>
> basicexam-2025.12.12.zip
> basicexam-2026.02.18.zip
> basicexam-20250102A.zip
>
> At least, `ls -lh basicexam-*` in “Fedora 43” gives the more standard:
>
> basicexam-20250102A.zip
> basicexam-2025.12.12.zip
> basicexam-2026.02.18.zip
The sorting order depends on the current locale:
$ cat /etc/os-release | grep PRETTY_NAME
PRETTY_NAME="Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Edition)"
$ touch basicexam-2025.12.12.zip basicexam-2026.02.18.zip
basicexam-20250102A.zip
$ locale | grep LC_COLLATE
LC_COLLATE="en_CA.UTF-8"
$ ls -1
basicexam-20250102A.zip
basicexam-2025.12.12.zip
basicexam-2026.02.18.zip
$ LC_COLLATE=C ls -1
basicexam-2025.12.12.zip
basicexam-20250102A.zip
basicexam-2026.02.18.zip
$ LC_COLLATE=es_ES.UTF-8 ls -1
basicexam-20250102A.zip
basicexam-2025.12.12.zip
basicexam-2026.02.18.zip
And if you're using a program that doesn't sort the output, then the
order will be random (but usually based on the date the file was
created):
$ rm 1 2 3; touch 1 2 3; find -type f
./3
./2
./1
$ rm 1 2 3; touch 3 2 1; find -type f
./1
./2
./3
$ rm 1 2 3; touch 2 1 3; find -type f
./3
./1
./2
So I don't think that it's really safe to assume that there is a single
correct way of sorting a list of files.
Thanks,
-- Max
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