ls command sort options

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 05:03:22PM -0700, Keith Morse wrote:
>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?
>
>Wow, this spawned quite a thread, eh?  This very thing is/has been 
>discussed at length on the Red Hat lists (redhat, valhalla, enigma).
>
>IN /etc/sysconfig/i18n  you can set the variable "LC_COLLATE=C", which 
>will change the behaviour system wide.  Otherwise you could set this for 
>each individual user in /home/$USER/.i18n  .

The first time I ran into this problem was compiling gawk for Unixware at
least five years ago, and found it was the internationalization and LANG
environment variable.  Setting LANG=C usually does the trick.

Bill
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