On 9/23/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > namely, an 'ls' that sorts directories first, and > > ordinary files afterwards? Do others actually see that behaviour in > > terminals?
> Sure. That's how it works for me. > $ locale > LANG= > LANGUAGE=en_US:en_GB:en > LC_CTYPE="POSIX" > LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" > LC_TIME="POSIX" > LC_COLLATE="POSIX" > LC_MONETARY="POSIX" > LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" > LC_PAPER="POSIX" > LC_NAME="POSIX" > LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" > LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" > LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" > LC_ALL= I have those values in place, partly as a result of doing 'export LANGUAGE=en_US:en_GB:en', and I now have 'locale' output identical to yours, but not the wanted 'dirs-first' behaviouir: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locale LANG= LANGUAGE=en_US:en_GB:en LC_CTYPE="POSIX" LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" LC_TIME="POSIX" LC_COLLATE="POSIX" LC_MONETARY="POSIX" LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" LC_PAPER="POSIX" LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" LC_ALL= $ ~$ ls -l |more total 255108 -rw-r--r-- 1 zoidberg zoidberg 1702 Oct 17 2005 BobZoidmanBernstein.asc -rw-r--r-- 1 zoidberg zoidberg 1053 Mar 14 2006 DisDetFunc.aux -rw-r--r-- 1 zoidberg zoidberg 8456 Mar 14 2006 DisDetFunc.log -rw-r--r-- 1 zoidberg zoidberg 258 Mar 14 2006 DisDetFunc.out -rw-r--r-- 1 zoidberg zoidberg 70809 Mar 14 2006 DisDetFunc.pdf -rw-r--r-- 1 zoidberg zoidberg 17626 Mar 14 2006 DisDetFunc.sgml -rw-r--r-- 1 zoidberg zoidberg 17609 Mar 14 2006 DisDetFunc.sgml~ -rw-r--r-- 1 zoidberg zoidberg 16340 Mar 14 2006 DisDetFunc.tex -rw-r--r-- 1 zoidberg zoidberg 204241 May 3 2006 HeideggerSpiegel.pdf -rw------- 1 zoidberg zoidberg 157 Jun 12 23:48 KathyAmex.txt.nc -rw------- 1 zoidberg zoidberg 1258 Nov 5 2006 Mailbox drwx------ 12 zoidberg zoidberg 1024 Jul 19 16:20 Maildir -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 645 Nov 9 2006 Muttrc -rw-r--r-- 1 zoidberg zoidberg 744180 Feb 10 2006 Silva-1.4-extra-2.tgz -rw-r--r-- 1 zoidberg zoidberg 5416881 Feb 10 2006 Silva-1.4.1-all.tgz .gz -rw------- 1 root root 157 Sep 16 2006 alison.txt.nc Do you have LS_OPTIONS set, or 'ls' aliased? If I may make so bold as to speak for others too, I hate this locale stuff that has descended on us since etch came into the world. Is there a nice dummy-friendly Debian Locale How-To? How, for instance, did you *set* those locale values shown in your post? Go Sox. Best regards, -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am not a looney! Why should I be tarred with the epithet looney merely because I have a pet halibut? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
