How to natural sort?

[rieje]

How to natural sort like in ls? I have no idea what --sort=name vs. --sort=Name means from the manual... surely it can have a more appropriate name or at least match ls semantics.

[agammann]

Both name and Name sort digit sequences naturally. The capital letter changes how letter case is handled; it does not turn natural sorting on or off.

For example, on eza 0.23.5:

eza -1 --sort=name .

puts file1, file2, file10 in that order. --sort=Name gives the same order for those three names.

For mixed-case names, name groups letters without separating all uppercase names from all lowercase names, while Name places uppercase before lowercase. In a test with A, a, B, and b, I got a, A, b, B with name and A, B, a, b with Name.

The sorting section of the manual describes that case distinction. So use --sort=name for the normal natural filename order; use --sort=Name if you specifically want uppercase names grouped first.