[ale] RedHat 7.1 ls Filename Sort Weirdness

Paul Kinsley paul at motionrealityinc.com
Fri Nov 2 13:57:44 EST 2001


First check to see if the command is aliased by typing
alias, or use the full pathname /bin/ls to see if the
behavior is different.




Danny Cox wrote:

> All,
> 
>         RedHat 6.2 ls works fine.  In a directory with lots of c source
> files, and a 'Makefile', the Makefile appears at the beginning of the
> list as I expect: ASCII collating sequence.
> 
>         In RedHat 7.1 however, they're sorted ignoring case.  I want to
> turn this abomination off, and I think there is probably a simple way to
> do it, but I can't even find a reference to it.  Help?
> 
>         Thanks in advance!
> 
> 


-- 
Paul Kinsley
Senior Systems Engineer
paul at motionrealityinc.com
http://motionrealityinc.com


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