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Old 08-03-2010
List files/dirs alphabetically case sensitive - AaBbCc?
Hi there,

im trying to list some dirs/files alphabetically (case sensitive) like in windows:
Code:
Folder_1
folder_2
Folder 1
Folder 2
folder 3
A.txt
a 1.txt
a 2.txt
B.txt
...

i tried ls, sort, ls and sort but cant get it to work?

Is this actually possible??
(im using #!/bin/sh)
# 2  
Old 08-03-2010
You don't have to use extra tools, ls and company usually honor the current language settings:
Code:
$ LANG=C ls -l
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 pludi users    0 Aug  3 15:43 A_test
-rw-r--r-- 1 pludi users    0 Aug  3 15:44 B_Test
-rw-r--r-- 1 pludi users    0 Aug  3 15:43 B_test
-rw-r--r-- 1 pludi users    0 Aug  3 15:43 a_test
drwxr-xr-x 2 pludi users 4096 Aug  3 15:45 b_Test
$ LANG=en_US ls -l
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 pludi users    0 2010-08-03 15:43 a_test
-rw-r--r-- 1 pludi users    0 2010-08-03 15:43 A_test
drwxr-xr-x 2 pludi users 4096 2010-08-03 15:45 b_Test
-rw-r--r-- 1 pludi users    0 2010-08-03 15:43 B_test
-rw-r--r-- 1 pludi users    0 2010-08-03 15:44 B_Test

Note that not all installations, especially non-Linux have the sort settings for different languages installed.
# 3  
Old 08-03-2010
Code:
bash-3.00$ ls | sort -fr
folder 3
folder_2
Folder 2
Folder_1
Folder 1
B.txt
A.txt
a 2.txt
a 1.txt
bash-3.00$

# 4  
Old 08-03-2010
Quote:
Note that not all installations, especially non-Linux have the sort settings for different languages installed.
seems this is not installed. i use a media player. perhaps it is missing these language packs??

when i use

Code:
bash-3.00$ ls | sort -fr
-sh: bash-3.00$: not found

when using

Code:
ls | sort -fr

i see first caps big and at the end small ones...like before??

perhaps this is not possible on the player?!
 
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