ls command sort options - SOLVED

[Brad De Vries]

Keith, Bill; you guys were both right on the money. 
The LANG and LC_COLLATE environment variables can
change the way things are sorted.  Changing either one
to "C" fixed the problem.

Thanks again to you and everyone who provided
suggestions/help.

Brad.
--- Keith Morse <kgmorse at mpcu.com> 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/$USER/.i18n  .
> 
> I haven't changed mine, opting to go along with the
> "standard".
> 
> 
> [kgmorse at lynx kgmorse]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n
> LANG="en_US"
> SUPPORTED="en_US:en"
> SYSFONT="lat0-sun16"
> SYSFONTACM="iso01"
> 
> 
> See "man bash" for more gory details


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