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

In comp.misc, Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:

vallor  <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:

LC_COLLATE=C ls -l
(Discovered by logging into my Panix shell and inspecting
the behavior and settings there.)

A Panix convention.

Does it work on linux as well as on the Panix machines?

The glibc Linux boxen work with that. 'LC_COLLATE=C' seems to mean
"tradional C behavior". I'm not sure how non-glibc Linux behaves
(thinking of Alpine). I suspect those don't even need the variable.

Elijah
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has been running with LC_COLLATE=C in ~/.profile for many years