I hadn't noticed this personally because I don't use the -a option that
much. But I saw a discussion about it on comp.unix.shell, and thought
I'd mention it in case nobody else did.
What people have come to expect from -a is that the dot files will all
appear before other files. In the ls that comes with fileutils 4.0.36,
they are intermixed. For example:
$ unalias ls
$ ls -a
. News
.. .newsrc
.acrorc .newsrc~
.bash_history .newsrc.eld
.bash_logout .newsrc.eld~
.bash_profile .newsrc-news
.bashrc nsmail
bin office52
.cddbslave personal
core pictures
.cpan .RealNetworks_RealCookies_60
.DCOPserver_linux1 .RealNetworks_RealMediaSDK_60
Desktop .RealNetworks_RealPlayer_60
.dxpc.pid-linux1-jhalpin .RealNetworks_RealShared_00
.emacs Reqrd_Info_for_OneTime_ENC_Review.doc
.emacs~ .saves-15009-linux1~
.esd_auth .saves-15971-linux1~
getMail.pl .saves-1756-linux1~
getMail.pl~ .saves-29559-linux1~
.gimp-1.2 .saves-355-linux1~
.gnapster .sawfish
.gnome .screenrc
.gnome-desktop Socket.plman
.gnome_private sounds
.gnus .sversionrc
.gnus~ test.pl
.gtkrc-kde test.pl~
House.jpg test.sh
.ICEauthority tmp
.kde .user52.rdb
.kderc .viminfo
.kxmlrpcd vsclient
.kxmlrpcd-socket-jthyta .wl
.Maelstrom-data work
.mc .xauth
.MCOP-random-seed .Xauthority
.mcoprc .xmms
.mozilla .Xresources
.netscape .xsession-errors
$ ls --version
ls (GNU fileutils) 4.0.36
Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie.
Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is
NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
This is on the RedHat 7.1 distribution of Linux. I suppose RedHat might
have hacked it for some reason, but thought you'd want to know either
way.
Joe
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