-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 19-May-2002/20:02 -0400, Statux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The old default behavior of "ls" was to list directory contents in >alphabetical order with hidden objects first before regular objects. Now >adays, "ls" ignores the leading '.' of object names and the case, and just >puts everything in ABC order.
I'm pretty sure that dotfiles begin with a dot to take advantage of the default behavior of ls (hide dotfiles). This is old UNIX behavior. If it was different on systems you used, it may have been vendor-specific or a customization by local sysadmins. >How would one go about changing things back to the old ways? Add to /etc/bashrc: alias ls='ls --color -a' Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Chat: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux: the choice of a GNU Generation. <http://www.linux.org/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Anthony E. Greene 0x6C94239D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> iD8DBQE86VUvpCpg3WyUI50RApi2AJ9m6GjRBXFwPuLhNvIXBbrKQPA63gCfTViw Xw12LJBC1Nri92DwIa19n54= =5wZm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
