Re: bug (feature?) in ls

[Eric Blake]

> When I type "ls -al", I have always expected to see dot files at the top 
> of the listing and regular files at the bottom.  This version (5.94) does 
> not follow that convention any more and it simply ignores the leading dot 
> when ordering the output.

Feature, not a bug.  ls sorting obeys your locale settings, and some locales
(including en_US) ignore punctuation when sorting.
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#The-ls-command-is-not-listing-files-in-a-normal-order_0021

Try running 'LC_ALL=C ls -al' instead.

-- 
Eric Blake