Re: Cron is sorting with ls differently

spacemancw wrote:
On Mar 30, 9:51 pm, Bill Marcum <marcumb...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2008-03-31, spacemancw <spacema...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:





I am running a script in cron and it is does an 'ls' differently than
when I run the script in my shell at the command line. I ran a quick
experimen to see how cron sorts file with ls ( I also tried ls -x).
I made a folder with these files
afile Afile bfile Bfile cfile Cfile
When I run my script at the command line, they get sorted
alphabetically, the way I want it, as follows
afile Afile bfile Bfile cfile Cfile
When the script runs in cron the files are sorted as follows
Afile Bfile Cfile afile bfile cfile
I tried add /home/myuser/.cshrc to the first line of my shell but no
luck
Did you source .cshrc? Otherwise, any variables set in there would be
lost. The variable you need to set is LANG or LC_COLLATE.- Hide quoted text -

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Thanx

wheb I type locale at my comman line I get

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

so am I supposed to load this under cron?
I added all these lines to the top of my script but it didn't make a
difference

thanx


You must export these variables.
In your script, you need to export these variables.

Alternatively you can just replace
ls
by
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 ls

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