[NTLUG:Discuss] Undoing Windows Sytle ls foo

[Kenneth Loafman]

kbrannen at gte.net wrote:

> Kenneth Loafman wrote:
>
>> Just upgraded from RH 6.2 to 7.3.  All is well except I can't seem to 
>> find which switches were installed that cause the oddball directory 
>> listing.  I want (need) to have the old style UNIX directory listings 
>> with the dot-foo stuff first, alphabetized with case-sensitivity, 
>> etc. This new listing looks too much like the crap Windows users have 
>> to contend with.
>
>
> I had that problem too for awhile.  I was starting to get so bugged by 
> it, I almost tracked down the source to ls just so I could compile it 
> with debug symbols and find out why it was sorting that way.  Just 
> about the that time, I did an upgrade (from Suse 7.3 to 8.0) and the 
> problem went away.  I still don't know why it happened, but part of me 
> is wondering if a "bad" version of glibc got into the distros for 
> awhile (I've seen this on RH too), before a "bug" (or feature :-) got 
> fixed.  There is no switch I can find in the help screen or in the man 
> page that turns this on, and conversely, none to turn it off...hence 
> my thought about a library bug.
>
> That probably doesn't help you much, but maybe it will give you hope 
> that it will probably get better with the next upgrade.

Thanks for the info.  Glad to know there's hope.

...Ken