ls bug report.

[Albert Schueller]

Hi,

After a recent upgrade to Redhat 7.1 I'm noticing the following annoying
behaviour in ls.  For many years now I've named directories starting
with capital letters so that in a standard file listing the directories come
first and then the rest of the files.  According to the ls man page this
is the default sorting mechanism (i.e. "ascii order" all capital letters
ranked before all lower case letters).  Now however, ls is sorting
the files and directories in strict alphabetical order, ignoring case.
As I mentioned, I'm using Redhat 7.1 which apparently shipped with the
following version of ls,


ls (GNU fileutils) 4.0.36
Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie.

Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


Since ls is not displaying the behaviour described in its man/info page I'm
reporting this as a bug.

A
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Albert Schueller                                 Department of Mathematics
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