The newest version of gnus ls has the irritating feature of ignoring leading dots in filenames when listing the output of all fiels in a directory. So, e.g., the simple invocation "ls -1A" in a test directory yields:
.abbrev_defs .bashrc bin/ .cvsignore .cvsrc .emacs .galeon/ .gconf/ .gnome/ .gnupg/ .gnus math-physics/ .mozilla/ .netscape/ .opera/ phil/ .sawfish/ .ssh/ .ssh2/ util/ writing/ .Xdefaults .Xresources I submit, this is just fucked up. I couldn't find any way to turn this behavior off in any straight forward way in the info or man pages, but I did discover a roundabout way to turn it off: using the option "-v", which sorts file names with imbedded verion numbering by numerical rather than (pseudo-)ASCII character order. Here's the output of "ls -1Av", exactly as it should be: .Xdefaults .Xresources .abbrev_defs .bashrc .cvsignore .cvsrc .emacs .galeon/ .gconf/ .gnome/ .gnupg/ .gnus,v .mozilla/ .netscape/ .opera/ .sawfish/ .ssh/ .ssh2/ bin/ math-physics/ phil/ util/ writing/ Hope this is as aesthetically useful to someone as it was for me. E -- Erik Curiel almost web-engineer/would-be philosopher "... there has never been an intelligent person over the age of sixty who would consent to live his life over again. His or anyone else's." -- Mark Twain, "Letters from the Earth" _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
