RE: [MLUG] case sensitivity in 'ls' command

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Spurling, Shannon wrote:

> The whole problem is, when you become case insensitive, every character 
> is changed from a or A to [a|A]. That can get a little complex for a 
> simple file listing tool. Ls is made to be as simple as possible, so I 
> think you are supposed to script something, like you just did, in order 
> to accomplish your task.
>
> Hey! It's the Unix way! :-)


Sort of.  It's also the unix way to share code with others.  It can't be 
that hard to make a case insensitive version of ls, or to make a command 
line option to turn on case insensitivity.  If case insensitivity can be 
implemented in grep, it can be implemented in ls.  Someone must be against 
the idea or it would have happened by now.

We have some VMS machines here.  Those users are used to case 
insensitivity and, if I try to get them to use Linux, they are likely to 
complain that Linux will not allow case insensitive dir listings.

Mike
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