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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: Rationale for aligning data on even bytes in a Unix shell file?
Date: 2 May 2025 03:03:18 GMT
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On Thu, 1 May 2025 20:30:08 -0400 (EDT), kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
wrote in <vv13mg$i2c$1@panix2.panix.com>:

> vallor  <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:
>>On Linux, try:
>>
>>LC_COLLATE=C ls -l
>>
>>...and the capitalized filenames will float to the top.
>>
>>(Discovered by logging into my Panix shell and inspecting the behavior
>>and settings there.)
> 
> Does it work on linux as well as on the Panix machines?
> --scott

Yes.

Here's what's up.  When I run locale(1) on Linux Mint, I see:

[...]
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
[...]

So ordering is case-insensitive, apparently:

$ ls -l
total 28
-rwxrwxr-x 1 vallor vallor 16016 Jan 10  2024 ckarray
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vallor vallor   169 Jan 10  2024 ckarray.c
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vallor vallor    24 May  1 19:59 Makefile
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vallor vallor    63 Jan 10  2024 phrase.txt

But setting it to "C", I get:

$ LC_COLLATE=C ls -l
total 28
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vallor vallor    24 May  1 19:59 Makefile
-rwxrwxr-x 1 vallor vallor 16016 Jan 10  2024 ckarray
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vallor vallor   169 Jan 10  2024 ckarray.c
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vallor vallor    63 Jan 10  2024 phrase.txt

....which is the case-sensitive sort order.

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