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ls broken
From: |
Brad Huntting |
Subject: |
ls broken |
Date: |
Sat, 15 May 2004 14:56:39 -0600 |
It would appear that ls(1) sorts alphabetically (case insensitive).
This is in contrast to every other version of *nix which sorts by
straight character code (which is obviously case sensitive). (In
truth I dont know what EBCDIC based Unix machines would do).
Obviously this must have been a deliberate feature, posibly an
offering to appease the case insensitivity fanatics of bygone times.
What's worse, there does not appear to be any (documented) way to
correct this (by, for example, environment variables).
brad
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