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Leading spaces are common, actuallyLeading spaces are common, actuallyPosted Mar 26, 2009 21:23 UTC (Thu) by foom (subscriber, #14868)In reply to: Leading spaces are common, actually by njs Parent article: Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames Finder does not ignore spaces. I'm quite glad, because I use the space-prefix trick rather regularly. I am occasionally annoyed at how GNU ls sorts "A B" between "AA" and "AC" instead of before them: that's certainly not how my brain sorts. Finder does however sort numbers like this, which GNU ls does not: 1 2 10 I don't really see what the point of the "human-style" sorting is if it can't even sort numbers. That seems kind of basic to me.
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Leading spaces are common, actually Posted Mar 28, 2009 1:21 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Sorting numerically in GNU ls is done by 'ls -v'.
(By default, despite comments elsewhere in this thread, ls sorts
Leading spaces are common, actually Posted Mar 28, 2009 1:57 UTC (Sat) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link] > Sorting numerically in GNU ls is done by 'ls -v'.Huh, never knew that, interesting! Never would have found that from the man page, which says "-v sort by version". That seems a remarkably poor description of what it actually does. > (By default, despite comments elsewhere in this thread, ls sorts ASCIIbetically, so " 2" comes before "1".) Well, not exactly: GNU ls has a default sort which depends on the locale's collation settings, and most systems default to a locale like en_US.UTF-8, so most people have it sorting in a case/accent-insensitive manner by default on their systems.
Leading spaces are common, actually Posted Mar 28, 2009 20:36 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
It's called 'sort by version' because the function it calls (strverscmp())
was designed to sort version numbers, and because the expected use of ls -v was sorting a directory full of version-named directories in version order.
(And you're right on the collation sort thing: I spoke carelessly.)
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