ls command sort options

[Pam R]

On Wednesday 11 September 2002 5:59 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Brad De Vries wrote:
> > --- Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> > > Seeing how you mentioned 15 years, you couldn't
> > > possibly be using the Gnu
> > > version of ls way back then, hence the reaon why
> > > things don't work the
> > > same under linux.
> >
> > You are correct, 15 years ago I was using SCO UNIX,
> > AIX and Altos UNIX.  On all those systems the 'ls'
> > command worked the same.  Even last year, when I was
> > using COL eDesktop 2.4, it still worked "correctly."
> >
> > This year I've used COL 3.1.1 and RH 7.3, both have
> > the "problem."
>
> Then the solution is simple.  Grab the fileutils SRPM from COL2.4 and
> rebuild it wherever you want that version.

Or:

1) man ls

2) Do 'alias' and look see if 'ls' has been aliased to something more subtle. 
On my SuSE 8.0 it says 
alias ls='ls $LS_OPTIONS'
 and echo $LS_OPTIONS gives
-N --color=tty -T 0

3) Based on (1) & (2) above, set up your system to suit your preferences.

HTH
-- 
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