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Folders and files sorted skipping preceding underscores? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I'm in the process of switching my machines to Linux Mint from Windows and on my network drive I have a bunch of folders that are sorted with the help of preceding underscores (like this "__folder1" "___folder2")) so that folders appear in a specific order.

When my Mint machines access the drive they sort by the first letter skipping the underscores and I'd really like to have that functionality back rather than having to rename a bunch of folders to try to sort them again. (I'd like to avoid a preceding 'A' workaround if possible as there's a bunch of folders)

Any suggestions? A setting I'm missing (very likely) or something?

Edit: The more I look the more it looks like I'm going to have to make a custom locale to be able to get the sorting I want from the default Mint file manager.

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[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

add export LC_COLLATE=C to your "~/.profile", log off, log back on.

I'm not sure if this is a good idea to add it to .profile, which would affect every Bash session and program. Global variable like these should be set for the applications you want to affect and not more to avoid side effects, if possible.

[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 3 points 5 months ago

yup, my ll alias is like this for yyyeeaaarrrrsssss because of this

alias ll='LC_COLLATE=C ls -alFh'