Dear GNU Developers:
This is not a bug report. It is a feature request. Sorry for sending it here, but I don't know where else to send it.
The 'ls' command has many great features/options but case insensitivity is not one of them. Also, things like 'ls *' will fail if the directory listing is too long. Other GNU tools such as 'locate' and 'find' can handle case insensitivity and larger numbers of files, but neither of those programs has the features of 'ls'. While it may be possible to use 'find' with 'ls' to do case insensitive directory listings and other nice things, it is not convenient.
Therefore, I suggest that either a case-insensitivity option be added to 'ls,' or that a secondary ls-like command be developed that will allow for case insensitivity and listing of large numbers of files. I believe that such a program would be widely used.
Thank you for considering my suggestion.
Regards,
Mike
-- Michael B. Miller, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Division of Epidemiology and Community Health and Institute of Human Genetics University of Minnesota http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/~mbmiller/
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