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Re: Modify sort ordering for `ls`

That's just what I'm looking for.  Thanks!

Daniel Li


*Daniel Li*
Senior Backend Engineer at Tubi TV

560 Mission St, Suite 1301

San Francisco, CA 94105

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Phil Pennock <
zsh-workers+phil.pennock@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2017-08-18 at 13:32 -0700, Daniel Li wrote:
> > Whereas on Ubuntu, ls -l gives the reverse:
> >
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 0 Aug 18 13:22 VeryLongFileNameHelper.scala
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 0 Aug 18 13:22 VeryLongFileName.scala
>
> export LC_COLLATE=POSIX
>
> 1. The default sort ordering is driven by locale.
> 2. Zsh can do things about results of stuff driven by zsh, including
>    glob expansion.
> 3. The above is not using zsh glob expansion.
> 4. How ls(1) works should be documented in its man-page and other than
>    via the environment, Zsh can't do anything here.  There's no
>    environment variables _we_ can add to _your_ system ls.
>
> Ultimately, if you can't find a locale collation which works for your
> purposes, you can dive deep and write your own collation specification.
> If your OS allows use of private locale definitions, then these should
> work in _all_ locale-aware applications, not just ls(1).
>
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009696699/utilities/localedef.html
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009696699/basedefs/xbd_chap07.html
>
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