Re: Rationale for aligning data on even bytes in a Unix shell file?

On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 23:56:40 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <vuudbo$1ajpm$7@dont-email.me>:

On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:38:53 -0000 (UTC), Muttley wrote:
 

Its certainly not a scheme I'd use, but I've also seen Makefile and
makefile in the same package build directory in the past.

 
The GNU “make” command, specified without a filename, looks for
“GNUmakefile”, then “Makefile”, then “makefile”. The man page
<https://manpages.debian.org/make(1)> says:
 
    We recommend Makefile because it appears prominently near the
    beginning of a directory listing, right near other important files
    such as README.
 
But is this still true for most people? I think the default sort
settings these days no longer put all-caps names at the top.

(Setting x-post and followups to comp.misc -- follow or ignore,
it's up to you...)

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.)

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