ls command sort options

[Brad De Vries]

--- "David A. Bandel" <david at pananix.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 09:41:57 -0400 (EDT)
> begin  Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> spewed
> forth:
> 
> > On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Brad De Vries wrote:
> > 
> > > Does anyone know of a way to sort the files in
> the a
> > > directory the way 'ls' used to sort them?
> > >
> > > Over the last 15 years I've gotten used to 'ls
> -al'
> > > sorting the files with "." files first,
> > > uppercase files second, lowercase files last. 
> Now the
> > > 'ls' command seems to ignore case and the
> ".".
> > >
> > > E.g., if I have 3 files in my current directory:
> > >   .bashrc
> > >   README
> > >   auction
> 
> This is correct, and my ls does this on COL 3.1.1
> (and all previous
> versions.
> 
> > >
> > > When I do a simple 'ls -al' I expect to see the
> files
> > > in the order listed above.  Unfortunately, I'm
> getting
> > > them in the following order:
> > >   auction
> > >   .bashrc
> > >   README
> 
> Well, that's borken.
> 
> > >
> > > I've read through the man pages and the info
> pages but
> > > have not found the option
> '--sort-like-it-used-to'.
> > >
> > > Any help would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Brad.
> > >
> > > P.S. 'ls --version' reveals 4.1
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Excuse me Lonnie, but I've been using GNU ls for
> over 10 years on various
> architectures, and this new way is borken.
> 
> I suggest you get the source, there's probably a
> switch for sorting the M$
> way you need to turn off.
> 
> Last time I compiled the fileutils source, it sorted
> correctly, so it's
> definitely either an rc file (probably in /etc) or a
> compile time
> absurdity that has to be turned off.
> 
> What distro?

I'm having the problem on COL 3.1.1 (with all the
updates execpt those that are very recent) and on my
RedHat 7.3 (with all the updates) systems.

Brad.

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