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martin

Re: ls -la command fails on scp login with german LANG/LC_ALL

WinSCP unsets both these on startup. Unless you have disabled this functionality (Clear national variables):
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/ui_login_scp
Thomas Mack

ls -la command fails on scp login with german LANG/LC_ALL

When opening a new session with SCP and the remote login has LANG and LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8 or similar, the directory listing via ls -la starts with something like: 
aaaaa@xxxx ~ 176 > ls -la| head

insgesamt 3122724

drwxr-xr-x 165 mack users       32768 Mai 18 23:01 .

drwxr-xr-x   3 root root            0 Mai 19 15:30 ..

-rw-r--r--   1 mack users      270013 Feb 25  2011 104510.pbm

-rw-r--r--   1 mack users        1600 Feb 25  2011 104510.png

The first line is total 3122724 in english environments, which works ok.

WinSCP tries to interpret the first line (insgesamt 3122724) as a normal output line of ls -l and stumbles over the file permissions nsgesamt resulting in a missing directory listing.

The german error message reads: 
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Fehler

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Fehler beim Anzeigen des Verzeichnisses "/".

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Unerwartete Zeile in Verzeichnisliste "insgesamt 27156".

Ungültige  Rechte Beschreibung 'nsgesamt '

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OK   Hilfe   

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Error

Error listing directory "/"

Unexpected line in directory listing "insgesamt 27156".

Invalid permission 'nsgesamt '

Ok   Help

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