On 2012-05-01 21:10 +0200, Dan B. wrote: > What controls the order that the ls command uses for sorting names?
The locale or more specifically, the LC_COLLATE setting. See locale(7). > On a fresh Squeeze installation, ls seems to ignore leading "." > characters (it no longer lists all "hidden" files adjacent to each > other) and to ignore capitalization differences. > > It used to sort in standard/traditional Unix order (not ignoring any > characters, and ordering by order of characters in ASCII/etc. (as > opposed to by case-insensitive alphabetical order)). This behavior is not new, but your locale settings may be. > What controls ls's sorting order? > > I haven't set any locale environment variable specifically for the > collation order, but I don't know what base LANG=en_US.UTF-8 setting > does. Does "en_US" imply that new sorting order? Yes. Unless you override it with a different LC_COLLATE setting, that is. > How do I tell ls to work the way I've seen it work for decades? I've been using LC_COLLATE=C for many years. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/874nrzy9y1....@turtle.gmx.de