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Re: case insensitive ls listing?



Quoting Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kk288@cornell.edu>:

> This is one of my long standing problems. Is there a way to make the 
> listing of ls case insensitive?
> 
> for example if in a directory, I do
> 
> ls -someoption tem
> 
> it should show all the files such as
> 
> tem, Tem, tEm, TEm, TeM, TEM etc...
> 
> I could not find such an option in the default ls. Is there any enhance 
> ls package which does this? or can the default ls be manifested to do this?
> 
> I can always do
> 
> ls [tT][eE][mM]
> 
> but that is too cumbersome to type and errorprone.
> 
> Any ideas are welcome
> thanks
> raju

Set LANG in your environment to en_US (or any locale other than C that uses
dictionary sort and not ASCII sort).

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr



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