Thomas Linden wrote: > Hello, > > I realized a change of the behavior of "ls -la" in the latest > version. It does no more list dotfiles at the beginning of > the listing, instead it ignores the dots and sorts the files > based on the 2nd character. > > While this "feature" might be funny for some people, I find > it annoying. ls is a standard unix utility and as such it > should not change it's well known behavior. Especially not > in such a way. Beside I didn't find this change mentioned in > the changelog. > > So, what I am asking for is: As a user of ls I don't want this. > Is it possible to turn it off and if yes - how?
Yes. It's covered in the FAQ. ls behaves posixly as it should. Your LC_COLLATE setting causes the sort order you see. > Will this feature stay forever in ls? I hope so. Standards are good. OS vendors behave oddly and don't get enough sleep. > What ls should I use if this bug (what it IMHO is) will be there forever? Not a bug. The user hasn't searched this list or read the fileutils faq (wherever it lives). > Would you agree to provide a second version of ls to the > source tree, say "good-old-ls", which people can use if > they don't like that the behavior of ls changes, like me? Not needed if users understand LC*. > regards, Tom Hope I wasn't too mean :) Matt _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
