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Re: ls -la sort order



On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 11:07:04AM -0400, Lee wrote:
> I can fix the problem by aliasing ls to 'LC_COLLATE=C  ls' but that
> seems klunky and would only fix ls (and not break anything else).  How
> bad of an idea would it be to set
>   LC_COLLATE=C
> in my .bashrc or is there some other setting to get dot files listed
> first, then uppercase, then lowercase?

This will affect ls, and also the expansion of globs.  It's totally fine,
assuming this is what you want, and assuming you don't have a lot of
files with non-ASCII characters in their names.  This is exactly what
locale settings are for.

Don't forget to export it.


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