On Sunday 15 June 2003 10:00 pm, eric huff wrote:
> 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

Thanks Eric. Would putting this in rc.local work also? It seems great except I 
remember that in additon to what you've got working that the files/dirs were 
also arranged lowercase followed by uppercase. Does this sound familiar or is 
my memory at fault? (that couldn't be it...)

Jon

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Jonathan Dlouhy
Sunday, June 15, 2003 11:56 PM
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