RH 7.1 ls sort order...

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

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On 24 Oct 2001, mark tolman wrote:

> I just upgraded from RH 6.2 to 7.1 and I have a small issue.
> 
> When I 'ls' a directory it mixes upper and lower case files and
> directories instead of being in the correct order (upper first, then
> lower).  I posted on the RH forums, but no one replied, and there is
> nothing about it in the RH Docs.
> 
> How to I fix this?

The environment variable LANG determines this. The default used to be "C", 
but lately the default is "en_US".

To fix it, add this to your .bashrc:

    export LANG=C

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