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Re: ls now case insensitive?



On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:14:55PM -0400, cfm@maine.com wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 09:09:38PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 09:16:18PM -0400, cfm@maine.com wrote:
> > > 
> > > re: ls now case insensitive?
> > > 
> > > I've got scripts breaking now because ls seems no longer
> > > case insensitive.  
> > > 
> > > tk.c
> > > tk.o
> > > TODO
> > > tty
> > > unfold_wk.c
> > > 
> > > Is this a bashism, a glibc thing, locales or POSIX way-it-will-be?
> > > 
> > > If it's not just bash, can we expect perl to "break" soon too?
> > 
> > I suspect locale. Try doing "LC_ALL=C ls"
> 
> Thank you Ben, that works.
> 
> Is the long term solution to add local to /etc/profile:
> export LC_ALL=C
> or otherwise?

Put it in your script as a work around for now.

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