RedHat and Mandrake recently changed the order in which they sort the file list in the 'ls' command. It used to be ASCII alphabetical (A-z), but now seems to be case and special character ignoring. I heard ls doesn't sort anything on its own by default, but uses the filesystem. There don't seem to be any alphabetic sorting options in 'ls', and none in tune2fs. Its different from what I'm used to, so I am bothered by it. Right now, it lists things in such a way like:

.a
b
C
d
_e
F
.g
.H

Anyone know how to get it back to the old behavior?

-Eric Hattemer

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