on Sat, 27 Jul 2002 07:48:24PM -0600, Bob Proulx insinuated:
> > and sort also doesn't deal with the interspersing of dot-files with
> > non-dot-files, which /bin/ls started doing along with interspersing
> > directories and files ...
> >
> > not a problem over here, just a curiousity. anyone let us know if you
> > figure it out.
>
> It sounds like you are using a specific locale, which you probably
> are, which specifies that characters like '.' are not significant in
> the name. That is often called dictionary order. Use 'locale' to see
> what locales you are set.
>
> locale
>
> Try setting LC_ALL=POSIX for a test and you will see the standard
> behavior. For a test you don't have to do it permanently, just for
> that one command.
>
> LC_ALL=POSIX ls -a
hey, awesome! thanks!
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