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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