ls

[Lee]

Hi,

Recent versions of ls seem to have changed the way files are listed so
that files beginning with a dot are now scattered amongst the other files
in the listing so that if I type ls -la I get:

drwxr-sr-x    9 root    root        1024 May 16 15:05 ./
drwxrwsr-x    3 root    root        1024 Oct 16  2001 ../
-rw-------    1 root    root       16527 May 18 13:04 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root         367 Jul 20  2001 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root         358 May 16 15:05 .bashrc
-rwxr--r--    1 root    root         240 Jul 22  2001 .bell*
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root         349 Jul 20  2001 .gvimrc
drwx--S---    2 root    root        1024 Nov  1  2001 Mail/
-rw-------    1 root    root       13343 Mar 18 10:24 mbox
drwxr-sr-x    2 root    root        1024 Apr  1 16:24 .ncftp/
drwxr-sr-x    2 root    root        1024 Mar 20 14:16 PERL/
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root          16 Jul 20  2001 .profile
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root        3416 Oct  1  2001 .screenrc
drwxr-sr-x    2 root    root        1024 Mar 18 15:02 share/

whereas before all the . files were listed at the top. As this is
unwanted/unexpected behaviour I consider it a bug. Are there any plans to
allow ls to list in its previous manner or are there any commandline
switches I can use to stop the current behaviour from occuring? I don't
want to stop viewing files beginning with a dot, I like to see all files
when I list the directory.

Thanks,

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Lee