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.
There are no alias's in place on either system.
eg.)
Gentoo: ------------ $ ls -a . .. .Xauthority .bashrc .omega Documents alpha scripts
Centos: ------------ $ ls -a . .. alpha .bashrc Documents .omega scripts .Xauthority
I'd prefer to see things the Gentoo way. Any idea's?
Hi,
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 18:01, Jacob Bresciani Jacob@aers.ca wrote:
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.
To fix the sorting order for all users in the system, add the following line to the end of the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file:
LC_COLLATE="C"
To fix it for a specific user only, add it to the ~/.i18n file instead.
HTH, Filipe
On 3-Sep-09, at 3:06 PM, Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 18:01, Jacob Bresciani Jacob@aers.ca wrote:
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.
To fix the sorting order for all users in the system, add the following line to the end of the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file:
LC_COLLATE="C"
To fix it for a specific user only, add it to the ~/.i18n file instead.
HTH, Filipe _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I know it would be easy, thanks to all who replied.
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 .
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