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? _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos