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    Surely you want two leading zeroes? Commented Mar 27, 2016 at 2:05
  • you need to rename your files so that they ALL have the SAME number of digits in the numeric portion of the filename, left-padded with zeroes. e.g. if you have more than 99 files, you'll need three digits: 001, 011, 100, etc. if more than 999, then 4 digits: 0001, 0011, 0100, etc. Commented Mar 27, 2016 at 2:10
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    I don't want two leading zeroes. I'm looking for consistency, and I'm asking this question because I believe there must be some way for the shell or filesystem to determine order other than by having matching number of digits for all files in a directory. Commented Mar 27, 2016 at 2:22
  • I don't see why it seemed surprising that one didn't work, is all. I don't think the locale can have that sort of collation behaviour, but I would be interested to find out. Commented Mar 27, 2016 at 3:00
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    "The order in which files are read by programs" is the order you told them to, not anything to do with the program reading them. I suspect you'd have to write your own locale to get general sorting to behave that way, and I'm not sure it's even possible to do it then. A more focused question on that topic might be more likely to be seen by someone who knows about doing that. Commented Mar 27, 2016 at 6:22