Hi, Apparently, the way ls sort the file names does not work with a localised sorting order. For instance, with a en_US locale, I get:
~$ mkdir t && cd t ~/t$ touch event.C event.h eventgenerator.C eventgenerator.h ~/t$ LANG=en_US ls -1 event.C eventgenerator.C eventgenerator.h event.h ~/t$ LANG=C ls -1 event.C event.h eventgenerator.C eventgenerator.h ~/t$ ls --version ls (coreutils) 5.2.1 I would expect the behaviour of the LANG=C locale. According to a knowledgeable guy on the libc-locales mailing list, the behaviour is a feature of the localised sorting mechanism: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.glibc.locales/96 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.glibc.locales/97 I guess the problem is that the dot has a different meaning in the context of file names so "ls" should try to do something clever like splitting the extension from the basename and sort the basenames first. -- Ole Laursen http://www.cs.aau.dk/~olau/ _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
