Woohoo! export LC_COLLATE=POSIX does the trick. I googled before on sorting, alphabetizing, etc, and every thing i could pf, but there's just too many hits. Thanks for the lead Kwan!
I put export LC_COLLATE=POSIX in .bash_profile so filemanagers (like rox) would get it and also in .bashrc (after /etc/bashrc gets run, since it sets it back) so xterms, etc wuld get it. Whoops: it's a little off. Heres the order: dot files numbers caps symbols lower case In rox, you have to choose either caps 1st (even before dots) or caps/lower the same. If i get inspired i'll poke around and see if there's an ASCII sorting setting, but i'm pretty happy with this. Thanks! eric On Sunday 15 June 2003 06:00 pm, eric huff wrote: > On Sunday 15 June 2003 03:13 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 17:44, eric huff wrote: > > > Hi Folks, > > > Is there any way to set the default linux alphanumeric order? > > > > > > I can't remember from my unix days anymore, but the last several > > > years i have happily placed _ at the beginning of filenames and > > > directories i wanted to show up first. > > > But that doesn't work. I have noticed it even ignores _'s in the > > > middle of a word. And didn't files that started with "." show up > > > first, too? > > > > > > I have this "problem" with lots of apps (galeon, rox, xterms, etc). > > > > It's probably a function of your LANG variable. What is it set to now? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] huff]$ echo $LANG > en_US > > Since i hadn't thought of that at all, i googled > LANG sort environment > and you're on the right track. > > I have to run off, but later i will look into a few of these links. > Hopefully there is a way to change some of these variables. > It looks like LC_COLLATE might help... > > Thanks for the tip. > eric
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