unix ls sort by name

Question

Can you sort ls listing by name? Amazingly enough (Or I must be brain-dead) I dont see anything in man pages or can find anything on google :)

Answer 1

My ls sorts by name by default. What are you seeing?

Answer 2

From the man page (for bash ls):

Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuSUX nor --sort.

Answer 3

For something simple, you can combine ls with sort. For just a list of file names:
ls -1 | sort

To sort them in reverse order:
ls -1 | sort -r

Answer 4

NOTICE: "a" comes AFTER "Z":

$ touch A.txt aa.txt Z.txt

$ ls

A.txt Z.txt aa.txt

Answer 5

check your .bashrc file for aliases