Thanks for the report.
That's not a bug. Two others have recently raised the same point.
Here's how I've replied:
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-fileutils/2001-June/001782.html
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-fileutils/2001-June/001781.html
Joe Halpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| 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
...
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