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loserMcloser

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From: Canada

Registered: 2004-12-15

Posts: 130

ls sort order

> touch @ @a 0 0a
> ls -1
@
0
0a
@a

Huh? If @ comes before 0, shouldn't @a come before 0a ??? 

JohannesSM64

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From: Norway

Registered: 2009-10-11

Posts: 623

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Re: ls sort order

» echo $LC_COLLATE
C
» ls -1
0
0a
@
@a

brisbin33

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From: boston, ma

Registered: 2008-07-24

Posts: 1,799

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Re: ls sort order

odd.

//blue/0/~/ echo -e "@\n@a\n0\n0a" | sort
@
0
0a
@a
//blue/0/~/ echo -e "@\n@a\n0\n0a" | LC_ALL=C sort
0
0a
@
@a

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//github/

kazuo

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From: São Paulo/Brazil

Registered: 2008-03-18

Posts: 413

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Re: ls sort order

This is locale dependent (LC_COLLATE). C give '0 0a @ @a' what are you using? en_CA? Look at http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/ca … mber=44872 for descrition of sorting order (some additions are made in the locale look at /usr/share/i18n/locales)

Procyon

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 1,819

Re: ls sort order

@ and many other characters translate as an empty string in LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8

loserMcloser

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From: Canada

Registered: 2004-12-15

Posts: 130

Re: ls sort order

@ and many other characters translate as an empty string in LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8

Aha, thanks. echo $LC_COLLATE gave a blank, so I guess it was determined by LOCALE="en_US.utf8" in rc.conf.

Also found some useful info here.

I now have export LC_COLLATE=C in ~/.zshrc 

Cheers!