From: vallor@cultnix.org   
      
   On Thu, 1 May 2025 20:30:08 -0400 (EDT), kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)   
   wrote in :   
      
   > vallor   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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