ls features

[Mike Miller]

Dear GNU Developers:

This is not a bug report.  It is a feature request.  Sorry for sending it 
here, but I don't know where else to send it.

The 'ls' command has many great features/options but case insensitivity is 
not one of them.  Also, things like 'ls *' will fail if the directory 
listing is too long.  Other GNU tools such as 'locate' and 'find' can 
handle case insensitivity and larger numbers of files, but neither of 
those programs has the features of 'ls'.  While it may be possible to use 
'find' with 'ls' to do case insensitive directory listings and other nice 
things, it is not convenient.

Therefore, I suggest that either a case-insensitivity option be added to 
'ls,' or that a secondary ls-like command be developed that will allow for 
case insensitivity and listing of large numbers of files.  I believe that 
such a program would be widely used.

Thank you for considering my suggestion.

Regards,

Mike

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Michael B. Miller, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
and Institute of Human Genetics
University of Minnesota
http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/~mbmiller/