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Re: ls sorting order change



> 
> On a fresh Squeeze installation, ls seems to ignore leading "."
> characters (it no longer lists all "hidden" files adjacent to each
> other) and to ignore capitalization differences.

Hi Daniel,

To list the hidden files, use the -a or -A option (the latter omits
. and ..). Maybe you had one of these in an alias on a previous
system?

Alternatively, if you want to see hidden files when you type "ls *"
you can set "shopt -s dotglob" (this is specific to bash).

-- 
Cheers,
Clive


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