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Re: ls sort order



On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 01:01:25PM -0400, Eric d'Alibut wrote:
> I just noticed on a brand new install of testing that ls has begun to
> sort alphabetically, but mixes uppercase and lowercase together i.e.
> 'Pearl' comes before 'pearl' but after 'otter'.
[...]
> A stable Debian version I maintain behaves the good old-fashioned way:
[...]
> Is this some utf-8 mutation?

Yup.  If you want the old behavior, use this:

export LC_COLLATE=C

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