Re: [CentOS] ls -l output

Jacob Bresciani wrote:

OK, this should be an easy fix but I can't find it, and it's strictly a cosmetic's issue.

on our older Gentoo systems if you do an ls -a it orders the results with all the . files ordered alphabetically then all the non-hidden files alphabetically. it also sorts with capitals first.

on the new Centos 5.3 systems ls -a returns all the files sorted alphabetically with capital's and smalls being equal and the . at the start of a hidden file appears to be ignored.

In your shell (assuming bash, not csh):

export LC_COLLATE=C

To set that automatically when you log in, add that line to your ~/.bash_profile .